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Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

Moms Mabley
Moms Mabley
Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975) was born in Brevard, North Carolina and was one of twenty children. She is a true showbiz legend and was once considered the funniest woman comedian in the world. She is better known by her stage name Moms or Jackie Mabley, saying she took the Mabley name from an old boyfriend who took so much from her it was the least she could do. Her comedic style took on many edgey subjects making her one of the first triple-X rated comedians on the comedy circuit. One of the most successful entertainers of the Chitlin circuit, she also did television appearances and at 75 years old, Moms Mabley became the oldest person ever to have a US Top 40 hit.
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Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

Spike Lee
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a film director, producer, writer, and actor, best known as Spike Lee. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
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Thursday, March 21st, 2024

Al Freeman, Jr.
Al Freeman, Jr.
Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr. (born March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas) is an actor and director. He has made appearances in many films, such as Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. His portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the motion picture Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He also played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations. Freeman currently teaches acting as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C..
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Friday, March 22nd, 2024

George Benson
George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a ten time Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan
Born Yvette Marie Stevens on March 23, 1953 in Chicago but is better known as Chaka Khan. She is a legendary performer with no less than 10-time Grammy Award wins.
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Sunday, March 24th, 2024

Billy Stewart
Billy Stewart
Billy Stewart (Born: March 24, 1937– January 17, 1970, in Washington, D.C) was an American musical legend, with a highly distinctive scat-singing style, who was extremely popular in the 1960s. Bo Diddley was credited with discovering Stewart playing piano in DC. Stewart died tragicaly in an automobile accident. His songs such as "Summertime" and "I do love you" live on.
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Monday, March 25th, 2024

Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time as well as the ninth greatest artist of all time. She has won 18 competitive Grammys and two honorary Grammys. She has 20 #1 singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart and two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967) and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987), a duet with George Michael. Since 1961, she has scored a total of 45 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also has the most million-selling singles of any female artist. Between 1967 and 1982 she had 10 #1 R&B albums---more than any other female artist. In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was the only featured singer at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
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Monday, March 25th, 2024

James McDaniel
James McDaniel
James McDaniel (born March 25, 1958 in Washington, D.C.) is an American stage, film and television actor. For seven seasons, this acclaimed stage, screen and television actor portrayed Lt. Arthur Fancy on legendary television series NYPD Blue.
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Ross (born March 26, 1944, Detroit, Michigan) is an American singer and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972), for which she won a Golden Globe award. She won 8 American Music Awards, garnered twelve Grammy Award nominations, and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977.
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass
Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade.
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