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 III. He is also known for his distinctive hairstyl ...
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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 Rhymes, after NFL and CFL wide receiver George "Bust ...
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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 modelling career in New York state, then in Paris, worki ...
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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 to "CBS Mornings" cohost Nate Burleson, Obama re ...
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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, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California ...
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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 uphold a Louisiana state law allowing “separ ...
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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's Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup teams. During ...
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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 pro, Parker started his career at Paris Basket Racin ...
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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 greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally b ...
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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
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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.
Like many parents this season, Tonya Williams will pr ...
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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 and convict the three Ku Klux Klan members who bo ...
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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 first African American unit of the United States Ar ...
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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, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Four ...
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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 American to be Peace Corps Director. Payton was a pio ...
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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 states that he is "arguably the best rebounding forward ...
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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 regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. The a ...
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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 Black congressional lawmakers when he was the first Bl ...
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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 singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene. Earlier ...
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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 6, 1945 in Nine Mile village in Jamaica’s S ...
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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 era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when ...
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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 in 1943 to Tessie Brown Jamison and John Jamison ...
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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 representing Slovenia from 2002 to 2012. She is ranke ...
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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 cast member in the show's history. He was also the fi ...
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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 9, 2010.
The legendary performer was the firs ...
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