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Sheryl Swoopes

March 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Sheryl Swoopes was born on March 25, 1971. She is a former professional basketball player, coach, and three-time Olympic gold medalist. Swoopes has been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Sheryl Denise Swoopes was born in Brownfield, Texas, a small town forty miles southwest of Lubbock. Her father, Billy Ray Swoopes, abandoned the family only months after Swoops’ birth. Father and daughter were not reunited until 2003, when Sheryl Swoopes […]

Categories: All, March, March 25, Swoopes, Sheryl • Tags: 1971, March 25, Sheryl Swoopes, Ubuntu Biography Project

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Cecil Taylor

March 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Cecil Taylor was born on March 25, 1929 (to April 5, 2018). He was a celebrated jazz pianist and poet who is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. Cecil Percival Taylor was born in Queens, New York, the child of a musical family, whose mother was a dancer and silent film actress. She also played the piano and violin, but died of cancer while Taylor was still young. His father, Percy Clinton Taylor, was head chef […]

Categories: All, March, March 25, Taylor, Cecil • Tags: 1929, Cecil Taylor, March 25, Ubuntu Biography Project

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