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Sunday, May 5th, 2024
Chris Brown
Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown (born May 5, 1989 in Tappahannock, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer and actor. He taught himself to sing and dance at a very young age. Chris made his recording debut in late 2005 with the self-titled album Chris Brown at the age of 16.
He has had eight top 20 hits on Billboard Hot 100, not to mention many other hits.
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
Jimmy Ruffin
Jimmy Ruffin (born May 7, 1939) is a soul singer, and older brother of the late David Ruffin.
Jimmy was born in Collinsville, Mississipp and had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted."
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Phillis Wheatley Peters
One of the first Black female poets in America. She was born in West Africa Wheatley became enslaved as a child about 7 years old.
In 1761 John and Susanna Wheatley purchased her when she arrived in Boston.
She married John Peters ( a free balck man) in 1778.
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Thursday, May 9th, 2024
Dave Prater
Dave Prater (May 9, 1937, Ocilla, Georgia – April 9, 1988, Sycamore, Georgia). singer who was the the deeper, baritone vocalist for the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 through 1981.
They were the most successful and critically acclaimed duo in Soul Music history, according to Rolling Stone Magazine.
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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
Momma Cherri's Birthday
Momma Cherri's born Charita Jones, in the 1950s Philadelphia. Charita’s early career was in soul music and even had a group called The Street Angels (with a Top 30 hit).
became a reality-TV star after appearing on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. She runs Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack, in Brighton. A former foster parent, she has two grown-up daughters and lives in Sussex with her second husband, Phil Jones, a librarian
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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
Minister Louis Farrakhan, Sr.
Minister Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr. (born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is the leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam (NOI). He served as the minister of major mosques in Boston and Harlem, and was appointed by the longtime NOI leader, Elijah Muhammad, before his death in 1975, as the National Representative of the Nation of Islam. After Warith Deen Muhammad disbanded the NOI and started the orthodox Islamic group American Society of Muslims, Farrakhan started rebuilding the NOI. In 1981 he revived the name Nation of Islam for his organization, previously known as Final Call, regaining many of the Nation of Islam's National properties including the NOI National Headquarters Mosque Maryam, reopening over 130 NOI mosques in America and the world.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (previously Judkins; born May 13, 1950), better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950, being the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway.
Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Mary Wells Birthday
Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) born near Detroit's Wayne State University, to a mother who worked as a domestic and an absentee father.
She was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with The Miracles, The Temptations, The Supremes, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the color lines in music at the time."
She was considered "The Queen of Motown"until her departure from the company in 1964, at the height of her popularity.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Donna Richardson Joyner
Donna Richardson Joyner (born May 13 1957 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American fitness and aerobics instructor, author and ESPN television sports commentator.
Widely known for her series of fitness videos, she was appointed in 2006 by President George W. Bush to serve on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. She also produces and hosts Donna Richardson: Mind, Body, & Spirit, which airs on TV One.
On July 29, 2000, Richardson married radio host Tom Joyner in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
She resides in Dallas, Texas and is a staunch Washington Redskins supporter.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Dennis Rodman
Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" and "The Worm" and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities.
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