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Sunday, February 23rd, 2025
Claude Brown
Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 - February 2, 2002) is the author of the critically acclaimed book Manchild in the Promised Land, published in 1965, which told the story of his coming of age during the 1940-50s in Harlem. He also published Children of Ham (1976).
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2025
W. E. B. DuBois
William Edward Burghardt DuBois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was a writer, historian, leader and one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). DuBois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was a gifted student who became a reporter for the New York Globe when he was 15 years old. He later attended Fisk University, then transferred to Harvard University; he was the first black to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. DuBois became a teacher and later studied the state of black people in the USA and around the world; he wrote many books.
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu (born Erica Abi Wright on February 26, 1971 in Dallas, Texas) is a Grammy Award-winning R&B/neo-soul artist whose work crosses over into jazz.
She is best known for her singles You Got Me, her collaboration with The Roots, as well as her own songs Tyrone, Love Of My Life, On & On, Bag Lady, The Healer, Honey and Soldier. Her lyrics are highly personal urban philosophy which throw emotional challenges in the face of the listener. She weaves unusual musical influences together creating a rich texture of sound.
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Friday, February 28th, 2025
Barbara Acklin
Barbara Jean Acklin (February 28, 1943 – November 27, 1998) was a soul singer and songwriter making a huge mark in the 1960s and 1970s.
She is best know for big her hit song -Love Makes a Woman- in 1968. But you may not know that she co-wrote -Have You Seen Her- with Eugene Record, lead singer of the Chi-Lites.
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