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Saturday, June 14th, 2025
Junior Walker
Junior Walker (born Autry DeWalt Mixon, Jr., June 14, 1931 – November 23, 1995)
Was born in Blytheville, Arkansas and grew up in South Bend, Indiana.
He was the lead in the band called Junior Walker and the All-Stars. His saxophone style was the anchor for the band's overall sound.
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Sunday, June 15th, 2025
Judy Pace
Judy Lenteen Pace (born June 15, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an American stage and screen actress.
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Monday, June 16th, 2025
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996) born in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York. He was known by his stage names 2Pac, Pac, and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur had sold over 75 million records worldwide as of 2010, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone Magazine named him one of the Greatest Artist of All Time! We encourage you to find out more about him as there
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980 in
Lynwood, California), now Lengendary American professional tennis player who has been ranked number 1 in the world 3 times.
She has won more Olympic gold medals than any other female tennis player. And her list of achievements go on.
She is the second youngest of 5 sisters and has played against her also famous sister Serena in 23 professional matches winning 13 of them so far.
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
Robert C. Maynard
Robert Clyve Maynard was an American journalist, newspaper publisher and editor, former owner of The Oakland Tribune
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Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Ben E. King
Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) is an American soul singer.
He was born Benjamin Earl Nelson on September 28, 1938 in Henderson, North Carolina,[2] and moved to Harlem, New York, at age 9.
He is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me", a U.S. Top 10 hit in both 1961 and 1987 and a #1 hit in the UK in 1987, and as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group The Drifters.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932)was born in Macon, Georgia, the third of 12 children born to Charlie "Bud" Penniman Sr., a bootlegger and his wife Leva Mae.
He is better known by the stage name Little Richard, an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s.
He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and contributed significantly to the development of soul music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on him states that:
He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear out Little Richard’s boast.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Eddie Levert
Edward "Eddie" Levert (born June 16, 1942) is an American singer, and is the lead vocalist of the soul/funk/R&B vocal group, The O'Jays.
Eddie was born in Bessemer, Alabama, but was raised in Canton, Ohio.
He is also the father of the late Gerald & Sean Levert.
Eddie is also the father of Eddie Levert Jr., CEO of Levert Entertainment Group, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Phylicia Rashād
Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948 in Huston, Texas) is an American Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
Rashād was dubbed "the mother" of the African American community at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards.
A graduate of Howard University and a Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority member.
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Friday, June 20th, 2025
Lionel Richie
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949, Tuskegee, Alabama), is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Since 1968, he has been a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records. Richie made his solo debut in 1982 with the album Lionel Richie and number-one hit "Truly".
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