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Venton C. Hill-Jones

January 31, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Venton C. Hill-Jones was born on January 31, 1984. He is a community organizer, non-profit administrator, and a respected specialist in public health communications committed to advancing civil rights, equality, and social justice for the African American and LGBTQ communities. Venton Carlos Hill-Jones was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Venton Carlos Jones and Stephanie Miller. He has three siblings, LaTrice Jones, Ladonna Jones, and Erica Jones. Hill-Jones attended Lancaster High School, where he graduated in 2002. While in school, he […]

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Ijumo Hayward

January 29, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Ijumo Hayward was born on January 29, 1969.  He is an internationally celebrated and collected photographer and painter. He is also a digital media specialist, filmmaker, graphic artist, entrepreneur, community builder, and advocate for LGBTQ rights. Ijumo Hayward was born in New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital to Lionel Baisden and Sylvia Hayward. Not long after his birth, Ijumo Hayward’s mother moved him to her native country of Bermuda, where he attended West Pembroke Primary School and then Warwick Academy, graduating in 1986. […]

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Richmond Barthé

January 29, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Richmond Barthé was born on January 28, 1901 (to March 5, 1989). He was an important sculptor who rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, later becoming well-known through his many public works, including the “Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument” in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the “Walls of Jericho” for the Harlem River Housing Project, and a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Pennsylvania home, Fallingwater. James Richmond Barthé was born in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, into a family of devout […]

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Ronald Lee Thomas

January 29, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Ronald Lee Thomas was born on January 28, 1969. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, financial planner, philanthropist, and copywriter, currently serving a second term on the DC Statewide Independent Living Council. Thomas is the co-founder and chairman of Al Sura, Incorporated, and is the chairman of his non-profit, The RLThomas Foundation, and a member of the Amputee Coalition. Ronald Lee Thomas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has two surviving sisters, Cynthia and Veronica, still residing in the Philadelphia area. […]

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Taylor Siluwé

January 27, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Taylor Siluwé was born on January 27, 1966 (to June 19, 2011). He was a popular writer, activist, and accomplished author of several novels of erotica and short story collections, including “Dancing With The Devil,” “A Taste for Cherries,” and “Cheesy Porn and Other Fairytales.” Siluwé also wrote short stories and essays, and blogged about LGBTQ news, activism, and gay life at SGL Cafe. Taylor Siluwé was a native of Jersey City, New Jersey, where he lived most of his […]

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Quincey J. Roberts

January 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Quincey J. Roberts, Sr. was born on January 26, 1982. He is an LGBTQ activist, sexual health and youth advocate, and public relations specialist. Roberts is the co-founder and former youth program coordinator of the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (HBGC) based in Boston, Massachusetts. Quincey Jamar Roberts, Sr. was born at Duke Hospital in Durham, North Carolina to Oscar Earl Roberts, who was a staff Sergeant in the United States Army, and Sheril Denise Cooper, the found and former director of Little […]

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Angela Y. Davis

January 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Angela Y. Davis was born on January 26, 1944. She is a political activist, scholar, writer, and organizer who is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad. A revolutionary of unequivocal prowess, Davis has devoted her life to combating racism and sexism. Despite acrimonious attempts by the government to suppress her political influence, Davis has never wavered in her commitment toward global social justice, and she has inspired countless […]

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Abdur-Rahim Briggs

January 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Abdur-Rahim Briggs was born on January 26, 1968. He is a respected community advocate, a philanthropist and non-profit founder, and a HIV/AIDS prevention activist. Born Marvin L. Briggs, he is a native of Los Angeles, California, and the son of Raymond Briggs, Sr., who owned his own printing company in South Central Los Angeles, and his mother Hazel Jean Davis (now Hazel Hill), who retired after working at the County of Los Angeles’ General Hospital (yes, the very hospital seen […]

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Bishop O.C. Allen III

January 24, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Bishop Oliver Clyde Allen III was born on January 24. Consecrated as a Bishop in 2011, he is a religious trailblazer, author, innovator, human rights advocate, international and community leader, and entrepreneur. Bishop Allen is the senior pastor and founder of The Vision Church & Cathedral of Atlanta, also known as The Vision Church. Oliver Clyde Allen III was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1973, the son of Oliver Clyde Allen, Jr., who is an architect and classical music […]

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Darnell L. Moore

January 24, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Darnell L. Moore was born on January 24, 1976. He is a writer, activist, editor-at-large at CASSIUS, and formerly a senior correspondent at Mic, where he hosted “The Movement,” a digital series focused on issues of social, cultural, and political importance. Moore is the author of the forthcoming memoir, “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America” (Nation Books, 2018). Darnell L. Moore grew up in a single-parent home in Camden, New Jersey, with his hardworking and loving mother, […]

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Akil Patterson

January 23, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Akil Patterson was born on January 23, 1984. He is a government relations professional, consultant to Athlete Ally, five-time Greco-Roman, All-American wrestler, football player, coach, motivational speaker, and youth and social justice advocate. Akil Sadiki Patterson grew up in Buffalo, New York, one of four children born to Keith Patterson, a real estate broker and property manager, and Rhonda Patterson, a professor of health. Patterson says his parents are all the role models he ever needed, and that they raised their family with little money while his mother attended […]

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Djola Branner

January 22, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Djola Branner was born on January 22, 1957. He is a celebrated theater artist and educator whose passion for integrating text, music, and dance as theatrical language has defined his methods in the classroom and studio, as well as in his approach to creating original drama. Djola Bernard Branner, whose first name means “share the wealth” in Yoruba, was born in Los Angeles, California, to Henry Homer Branner, a house painter and musician, and Sadie Leora Branner, a homemaker who would work in, and eventually […]

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Pat Parker

January 22, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Pat Parker was born on January 20, 1944 (to June 19, 1989). She was an influential lesbian and feminist poet and activist. Given the name Patricia Cooks at birth, Pat Parker was born in Houston, Texas, the youngest of four daughters in a Black working class family. Her mother, Marie Louise Cooks, was a domestic worker, and her father, Ernest Nathaniel Cooks, supported the family by re-treading tires. Urged by her father to take “the freedom train of education,” Parker […]

Categories: All, January, January 20, Parker, Pat • Tags: 1944, 1989, January 20, June 19, Pat Parker, Ubuntu Biography Project

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Louis Farmer

January 19, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Louis Farmer was born on January 19, 1967. He is an openly gay, HIV positive writer, health professional, HIV/AIDS activist, blogger, activist, community builder, social worker, and mentor to youth of color of all sexual orientations and genders. He has worked tirelessly empowering people of color; those affected and infected with the HIV/AIDS virus, ex-offenders, commercial sex workers, and other minorities through mentoring, advocacy, social services and public speaking. Louis Darnell Farmer was born in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age […]

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Davis Mac-Iyalla

January 19, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Davis Mac-Iyalla was born on January 19, 1972.  He is a respected LGBTQ advocate, faith leader, teacher, and human rights defender. Davis Mac-Iyalla was born in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. He was baptized and confirmed in Saint Andrew’s Anglican Church in Bakana, Nigeria, and attended primary and secondary education there. He enrolled in Teachers Training College in Degema, Nigeria. While in school, Mac-Iyalla was active in swimming and singing in the choir.  He was awarded the Best Punctuality Student of the Year award. […]

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Alvin A. McEwen

January 18, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Alvin A. McEwen was born on January 18, 1971. He is a prolific LGBTQ writer, blogger author, and activist widely respected for his role in exposing the hate and harm of religious extremists. Alvin A. McEwen was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and attended A.C. Flora High School in Forest Acres, South Carolina, where he graduated in 1989. While in high school, McEwen served as the student body vice president, editor of the school newspaper, and as both president and […]

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L. Michael Gipson

January 18, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

L. Michael Gipson was born on January 18, 1975. He is a writer, researcher, advocate, cultural curator, and arts critic who has served in the fields of music and literary criticism, education, HIV/AIDS, adolescent reproductive health, as well as youth and community development programming on the local, state, and national levels for more than twenty years. L. Michael Gipson is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and lived there with his mother and siblings before he joined his father, a military […]

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Frankie Knuckles

January 18, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Frankie Knuckles was born on January 18, 1955 (to March 31, 2014). He was a beloved DJ, record producer, and innovative re-mixer who played an important role in developing and popularizing house music in the 1980s and 1990s. Widely considered The Godfather of House Music, Knuckles won the Grammy Award for Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical in 1997, and was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Francis Warren Knuckles, Jr. was born in the New York […]

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Kenny Greene

January 17, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Kenny Greene was born on January 17, 1969 (to October 1, 2001). He was a vocalist, songwriter, and lead member of the R&B group Intro (Innovative New Talent Reaching Out). Kenny Greene was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He enlisted in the Army at the age of 18, and began singing and playing the piano at military talent shows. His friend and collaborator, Clinton “Buddy” Wike, was also in the service, and they began to meet and create music […]

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Bisi Alimi

January 17, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Bisi Alimi was born on January 17, 1975. He is an internationally renowned public speaker, storyteller, television pundit, actor, model, activist, and drag queen with expertise in sexual health, human and LGBTQ rights, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, feminism, education, and poverty alleviation. Alimi is the co-founder of Rainbow Intersection, and the executive director of the Bisi Alimi Foundation. Born Alimi Ademola Iyandade Ojo Kazeem in the Mushin district of Lagos, Nigeria, Alimi was the third in a family of five children […]

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Terrence Clemens

January 17, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Terrence Clemens was born on January 17, 1989. He is an LGBTQ advocate, future community leader, amateur boxer, and college basketball player whose coming out story was profiled in the 2015 documentary “Game Face.” Terrence Lamar Clemens was born in South Central Los Angeles, California, the middle child of six born to father Rudolph Clemens and mother Rochelle Denise Wiggins. With his father in prison and a mother who was in his life but not the primary caregiver, Clemens was […]

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Michael Terry Everett

January 15, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Michael Terry Everett was born on January 15, 1980. He is a husband, champion of same gender love, researcher, advocate, HIV/AIDS activist, creator, and educational facilitator. Michael Terry Everett was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to William “Bill” Winchester, the grandson of Delaware’s first seated Black state representative, and the son of jazz musician Lem Winchester. Michael grew up mostly with his mother, Ida Everett, a homemaker who struggled with addiction most of her life. His older sister and only sibling, […]

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Steven G. Fullwood

January 15, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Steven G. Fullwood was born on January 15, 1966. He is a respected author, publisher, and curator who may be best known as the archivist who founded the In the Life Archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library. Fullwood was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Steve J. Fullwood, a chef, and Elaine E. (Houston) Fullwood, a bank employee. He has four siblings, Cynthia (1961-1992), Karen, Darryl (1968-2016), and […]

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Reginald T. Brown

January 15, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Reginald T. Brown was born on January 14, 1952. They are a social justice, faith-based activist, an advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS and who are homeless, and a proponent of HIV decriminalization. Reginald Thomas Brown M.Ed. was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Rufus T. Brown, who was a railroad worker, and their mother, Clydia P. Turner, a nurse practitioner. They have a sister, Sabrina, and a stepsister, Barbara, five grown nieces, and a nephew. Brown attended Wyandotte High […]

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André De Shields

January 12, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

André De Shields was born on January 12, 1946. He is a two-time Tony Award-nominated and Emmy and Obie Award-winning actor, singer, director, dancer, novelist, choreographer, lyricist, composer, and college professor. André Robin De Shields was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the ninth of eleven children to Mary, who earned money by cleaning homes of white families who lived outside of their segregated neighborhood, and his father John, who was a tailor. “We were just hovering above impoverishment. Our two-story Federalist-style […]

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Amiyah Scott

January 11, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Amiyah Scott was born on January 11, 1988. She is a model and reality star best known for becoming the first transwoman cast on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” Born in Manhattan, New York and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Scott recognized at a very young age that the gender she identified with did not match with her true self. At the age of 15, Scott underwent a partial male to female transition, and explained to her family that she […]

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Rayceen Pendarvis

January 11, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Rayceen Pendarvis was born on January 11. Known affectionately as the High Priestess of Love, the Queen of the Shameless Plug, and the Goddess of DC, the self-described “gender-blender” is the host of “The Ask Rayceen Show,” an emcee, entertainer, social media personality, activist, and “SWERV” magazine columnist. Rayceen Pendarvis was born one of six siblings in Washington, DC, to a military father, Robert, and a social worker mother, Mary. Pendarvis attended McKinley High School, and was active in the […]

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Nikilas Mawanda

January 10, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Nikilas Mawanda was born on January 10, 1982. He is a respected transgender activist, a human rights defender, and an international advocate for equality, equity, freedom, and justice, with a specialty in sexual and gender minority rights. Mawanda is the founding director of Trans Support Initiative—Uganda, a transgender and gender non-conforming people’s organization in Uganda. Nikilas Mawanda was born in Kampala, Uganda to the late Prince Zakariya Mawanda Muyigwa and Hajjat Nnalongo Hamiat Nansubuga, a businesswoman and housewife. He has […]

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LaWana Mayfield

January 9, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

LaWana Mayfield was born on January 9, 1970. She is a respected community activist, LGBTQ leader, equality advocate, and an admired public servant who was re-elected to serve her fourth term representing the residents of Charlotte, North Carolina’s Third District on the City Council. LaWana Mayfield was born in Ruston, Louisiana to the late Daniel Slack, who was a construction worker, and her mother, the late Ruth Marsh, a teacher who worked for Miami-Dade 311 and was a homemaker. She […]

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Dwight Allen O’Neal

January 9, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Dwight Allen O’Neal was born on January 9, 1984. He is a model, actor, producer, celebrity makeup artist, and LGBTQ activist. Dwight Allen O’Neal was born the youngest of three children in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Dwight O’Neal, who is a cowboy, and his mother, Christell O’Neal, who works in the medical field. He attended John L. McClellan Magnet High School, where he graduated with honors in 2002. O’Neal was active as the vice president of the student council, the treasurer of […]

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