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Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud, May 21, 1952) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team and as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky

Trevor George Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972), known professionally as Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the moniker Busta Rh

Grace Beverly Jones OJ (born 19 May 1948) is an American model, singer and actress. Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to Syracuse, New York, when she was a teenager. Jones began her modell

Barack Obama Says White House Exit Helped Save His Marriage Story by Ny MaGee • *Former President Barack Obama says leaving the White House helped save his marriage to wife Michelle. Speaking

Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Ba

This Day in Black History: May 18, 1896 U.S. Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson case. The United States Supreme ruled in the Plessy v. Ferguson court case to

Yannick Noah (French pronunciation: ​(Born 18 May 1960) is a French former professional tennis player and singer. Noah won the French Open in 1983, and is currently the captain of both France'

William Anthony Parker Jr. (born 17 May 1982) is a French-American former professional basketball player and majority owner of ASVEL Basket in the LNB Pro A. Himself the son of a basketball pr

Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor. Often regarded as one of the greates

This is the most powerful 24 second speech I have ever heard. That speech was direct, short, clear and you will get the point, Republicans: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1658520310130548739/video/1

Chicago Mother and Son to Graduate From Same College Together Tonya Williams of Chatham, Illinois, will be graduating alongside her son Aaron Williams, on May 15 at Chicago State University. Lik

This Day in Black History: May 15, 2002 Bobby Frank Cherry, the last of the Birmingham church bomb killers to be convicted of murder, was sentenced in 2002. It took more than a decade to prosecute

Henry Johnson (World War I soldier) William Henry Johnson (circa July 15, 1892 – July 1, 1929), commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the fir

Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations

Carolyn Robertson Payton (May 13, 1925 – April 11, 2001) was appointed Director of the United States Peace Corps in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. She was the first female and the first African Ameri

Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player. Known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities, his biography on the official NBA website state

Are You Experienced Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, the LP was an immediate critical and commercial success, and it is widely regarde

This Day in Black History: May 12, 1951 Former congressman Oscar De Priest died of complications from a bus accident on May 12, 1951. Oscar Stanton De Priest ended a 28-year-long dry spell of Blac

Louis Farrakhan (Born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933) is an American black supremacist and anti-white cult leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI). Prior to joining the NOI, he was a calypso si

This Day in Black History: May 11, 1981 Bob Marley passed away 40 years ago today. On May 11, 1981, singer-songwriter Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley died from skin cancer at age 36. Born on February

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern

Judith Ann Jamison (born May 10, 1943) is an American dancer and choreographer. She is the artistic director emerita of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Early training Judith Jamison was born

Merlene Joyce Ottey OJ CD (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978, and continued to do so for 24 years, before rep

Kenan Thompson (Born May 10, 1978) is an American comedian and actor. Thompson has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cas

On May 9, 2010, Lena Horne died in New York City at age 92 of heart failure. Groundbreaking singer, dancer and actress Lena Horne, 92, died of heart failure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on May