In 2009, Dawes won an Emmy Award in the category of New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture.
Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.
Kwame Nkrumah | Kwame Kilpatrick | Jomo Kwame Sundaram | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | Kwame Kwei-Armah | Kwame Dawes | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Dominique Dawes | The Life of Rufus Dawes | Henry L. Dawes | Dawes Rolls | Dawes Act | William Dawes | Ras Kwame | Johnny Dawes | Dawes Point | Dawes Plan | Dawes | Charles G. Dawes | William Rutter Dawes | Simon Dawes | Robyn Dawes | Richard Dawes | Kwame Yeboah | Kwame R. Brown | Kwame Raoul | Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong | Kwame Harris | Kwame Cavil | Kwame Baah |
Poets Kwame Dawes, Christina Garcia, Kate Durbin, Karen Harryman, Uche Nduka, Percival Everett, Khadijah Queen and Gabriela Jauregui have all been published by Black Goat.