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Monday, January 1st, 2024
Emancipation Proclamation signed
President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the document which officially ended slavery in the United States on Jan. 1, 1963.
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Friday, January 5th, 2024
Ted Lange
Theodore William "Ted" Lange (born January 5, 1948) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the 1970s TV series The Love Boat.
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Friday, January 5th, 2024
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 - December 1, 1989) was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance. His company gained the nickname "Cultural Ambassador to the World" because of its extensive international touring.
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024
Kathy Sledge
Kathy Sledge (born January 6, 1959) of the group Sister Sledge were born and raised in North Philadelphia and began singing in local Philadelphia churches like the Second Macedonia Baptist Church. They were discovered by Charles Simmons. Their career went into decline before it revived under the production skills of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic. This association gave them their biggest successes during 1979: the popular disco anthems "We Are Family" (#1 R&B, #2 Pop in the U.S.) and "He's the Greatest Dancer" (#1 R&B, #9 Pop in the U.S.)
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024
Doris Troy
Doris Elaine Higginsen (born January 6, 1937 – February 16, 2004) born in The Bronx, NYC was the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. She took her grandmother name and grew up as Doris Payne. A famous R & B singer, she was known as "Mama Soul".
Doris not only worked with many other legendary artists like The Drifters, Cissy Huston and Dionne Warwick, she also co-wrote and sang the hit song "Just One Look".
Mama, I Want To Sing is a stage musical based on her life. It was co-written with her sister, New York radio personality Vy Higginsen.
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), better known by his stage name R. Kelly is an American R&B singer-songwriter, arranger, performer and record producer.
Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in 1993 with the album 12 Play. He is known for a collection of major hit singles.
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971,The Bronx, New York) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress.
A recipient of ten Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, Blige has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. Blige has received the World Music Legends Award for combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s. She was ranked number 100 in the list of 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
In November 2010, Billboard Magazine ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B artist of the past 25 years, she ranked second, placing her ahead of Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston.
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Friday, January 12th, 2024
George Duke
George Duke (born 12 January 1946 in San Rafael, California)[1] is a piano and synthesizer pioneer and singer. A multi-talented musician, he has worked with numerous acclaimed artists spanning numerous genres as a recording artist, composer, record producer, professor of music, and music director.
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Friday, January 12th, 2024
Joe Frazier
Born Joseph William Frazier (January 12, 1944 – November 7, 2011) was the 12th child of Rubin and Dolly Frazier in Beaufort, South Carolina. Was a legendary professional boxer, Olympic gold medalist and Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion. He was known as Smokin Joe Frazier and he defeated opponents that included Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonavena, Buster Mathis, Eddie Machen, Doug Jones, George Chuvalo, Jimmy Ellis and even Muhammad Ali in 1971.
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Sunday, January 14th, 2024
Vonetta McGee
Vonetta McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010 was born in San Francisco, CA) was an American actress. She graduated from San Francisco Polytechnic High School and made her debut in 1968 as a character in the Italian comedy Faustina. In the same year she performed alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in the Western The Great Silence, but became well-known for her parts in the 1972 Blaxploitation films Melinda and Hammer.
In the action thriller Shaft in Africa (1973), McGee took the role of Aleme, the daughter of an emir, who teaches John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) Ethiopian geography. Vonetta McGee played “Thomasine” in the western action film Thomasine & Bushrod, in 1974. Max Julien portrayed Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. She also starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the action thriller The Eiger Sanction (1975)
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Sunday, January 14th, 2024
LL Cool J
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), better known as LL Cool J (an abbreviation for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor from Bay Shore, New York. He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love", "Around the Way Girl" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", and "Mama Said Knock You Out". He has released thirteen studio albums and two greatest hits compilations. He has also appeared in numerous films, and currently stars as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
LL Cool J married his wife Simone I. Johnson, on August 9, 1995 at his home in Long Island, New York. The couple have four children: one son and three daughters.
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Humphrey Hopkins Jr, (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1965) is an American boxer known as The Executioner and former Ring Magazine and WBC light heavyweight champion.
He defended his world middleweight title a record 20 times and is considered one of the greatest middleweight champions of all time.
He is the oldest boxer to ever win a world title at age 46, he defeated Jean Pascal on May 21, 2011 by a unanimous decision, beating the record previously held by George Foreman.
He is also the former undisputed world middleweight champion, and the first fighter to retain all 4 world titles of each major boxing sanctioning body, plus The Ring belt, in the same fight.
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
Regina King
Regina King (born in Los Angeles, California January 15, 1971) is an American film and television actress. Regina means "queen" in Italian/Latin.
Although she is currently in the role of Detective Lydia Adams on the TV series Southland.
She is known for many roles like Brenda Jenkins, daughter of Mary Jenkins on the sitcom, 227, wife of Will Smith in "Enemy of the State", a critically acclaimed role in the film Jerry Maguire and many more.
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
Edward Bivins
Edward "Sonny" Bivins (born in Macon, Georgia on January 15, 1942) Sonny is one of the founding members of the Manhattans. In 1964 at the Apollo Theater at the Amateur night contest the group took 3rd Place. Joe Evans gave the group a recording contract with his label out of Jersey City called Carnival Records. Sonny wrote some of the classic Manhattan songs like “There’s No Me Without You” and even collaborated on “ We Never Dance To A Love Song”.
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
Aaliyah
Aaliyah
(Born: Aaliyah Dana Haughton, on: January 16, 1979, Brooklyn, N.Y. ) was raised in Detroit, Michigan.
An American rhythm-and-blues singer, actress and model.
She was on the brink of superstardom when she died in a plane crash in the Bahamas on Aug. 25, 2001.
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
Debbie Allen
Deborrah Kaye “Debbie” Allen (born January 16, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is perhaps best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series Fame, where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant, and served as the series principal choreographer. She is the younger sister of actress/singer Phylicia Rashād.
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
Sade
Helen Folasade Adu (born January 16 1959), better known as Sade. She was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Sade is and Grammy Award winning artist and listed at number 30 on the VH1 100 Greatest Women In Music list. In 2002, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to popular music, which she dedicated to all black women in Britain.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942-June 3, 2016) Born in Louisville, Kentucky was an American former boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. After turning professional, he went on to become the first and only boxer to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964 in Chicago, IL) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States.
A successful attorney who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She met her husband while working at the law firm Sidley Austin.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
Steve Harvey
Broderick Steven "Steve" Harvey (January 17, 1957) is an American comedian, entertainer and author. He was born in Welch, West Virginia. He currently hosts the famous The Steve Harvey Morning Show and Family Feud game show. He is the author of several best selling books.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
Lawrence Douglas Wilder
Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931 in Richmond, VA.) is the first African American to be elected as governor of Virginia and first African-American governor of any state since Reconstruction. Wilder served as the 66th Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
Crystal Bird Fauset
Crystal Bird Fauset (June 27. 1894 - March 27, 1965 born in Princess Anne, MD.) was the first female African-American state legislator in the United States.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
William Hart
Wilbert Hart
William Hart born born January 17, 1945 in Washington, D.C is an original member of the Delfonics. A vocal trio made up of brothers William and Wilbert Hart and Overbrook high school friend Randy Cain.
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Thursday, January 18th, 2024
David Ruffin
Davis Eli "David" Ruffin (January 18, 1941 – June 1, 1991) better known as David Ruffin was an legendary soul singer most famous for his work as a lead singer of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968. He was the lead voice on such famous songs as "My Girl" and "Ain
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He later added an "e" onto the end of his name, though the reason for this is disputed.
He was one of eight children of Annie Mae and the Reverend Charles Cook, a Baptist minister.
Cook was an African-American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. He is commonly known as the King of Soul for his unmatched vocal abilities and influence on the modern world of music.
Cooke had 29 top-40 hits in the U.S. between 1957 and 1964.
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Raymell Rice
Raymell Maurice Rice (born January 22, 1987 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American football running back for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Rutgers.
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Bishop C. L. Franklin
Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (born January 22, 1915 – July 27, 1984 in Sunflower County, Mississippi), was an American Baptist minister, a civil rights activist, and father of the legendary soul and gospel singer Aretha Franklin.
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin (born January 25, 1959, Louisville, Ms) is an American gospel music singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work.
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Etta James
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins, January 25, 1938) is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues (R&B), rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer.
Sometimes called Miss Peaches, she is best known for her version of the Mack Gordon and Harry Warren song "At Last", and for "I'd Rather Go Blind".
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian.
Keys has won numerous awards and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and 25 million singles, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time.
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