Tibrina Hobson/Getty ImagesTIME magazine’s second annual TIME100 Next list — which rounds up 100 people who are “shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership” — includes John David Washington, Chloe X Halle, Lil Baby, Amanda Gorman, LaKeith Stanfield, and Regé-Jean Page.
TIME tapped fellow celebrities to pen tributes to their choices. Spike Lee pays tribute to Washington, who appeared at the age of 7 in his film Malcolm X, which starred John’s father, Denzel Washington.
“When I began development on BlacKkKlansman, I knew right away that J.D. was “da MAN WIT da PLAN” to portray the real-life Ron Stallworth,” Lee wrote. “I had peeped his SKILLZ in HBO’s series Ballers and I liked what I saw. And as
