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Pepe Julian Onziema

November 30, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Pepe Julian Onziema was born on November 30, 1980. Known to many as Opimva (“son of a chief”), he is an African citizen of Ugandan descent, a human rights defender, sexual and gender minority advocate, fearless influencer of society, and freedom fighter living openly as a transman in Uganda. Born into Ugandan royalty to Lieutenant George Ken Onzima and midwife Florence Naigwe Onzima, Pepe Julian Onziema’s heritage includes the Ma’di tribe in the West Nile Province. When Onziema was just […]

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Billy Strayhorn

November 29, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Billy Strayhorn was born on November 29, 1915 (to May 31, 1967). He was a composer, pianist, and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington. Their dynamic working relationship endured for nearly three decades, and produced such definitive American jazz compositions as “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” and “Lush Life.” William Thomas Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio, the fourth of nine children. Gravely ill at birth and born into an impoverished […]

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Colman Domingo

November 28, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Colman Domingo was born on November 28, 1969. He is a Tony Award-nominated actor, writer and director of stage and screen whose credits include the films “42,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” and “Selma,” Broadway’s “Chicago” and “The Scottsboro Boys,” and the AMC television series “Fear the Walking Dead,” in which he portrays Victor Strand. Domingo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended Overbrook High School and majored in journalism at Temple University. After relocating to San Francisco, California, Domingo […]

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Ephraim Lewis

November 27, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Ephraim Lewis was born on November 27, 1967 (to March 18, 1994). He was an English soul/neo-soul and R&B singer and songwriter whose promising career was cut short by his mysterious death after releasing only one album. Ephraim Lewis was born the youngest of eight children in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. His father, Jabez, encouraged the siblings to pursue music as a family vocal group, but that dream ended with the death of Lewis’s mother in 1984. Jabez Lewis later […]

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Simon Tseko Nkoli

November 26, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Simon Tseko Nkoli was born on November 26, 1957 (to November 30, 1998). He was an important anti-apartheid, gay rights, and AIDS activist in South Africa. Simon Tseko Nkoli was born in Soweto, South Africa in a seSotho-speaking family. He grew up on a farm in the Free State, and his family later moved to Bophelong Township, near Sebokeng. South Africa’s apartheid laws imposed severe limitations on his family’s opportunities. Nkoli told the story of how, at age nine, he […]

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Oliver W. Martin III

November 25, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Oliver W. Martin III was born on November 25, 1958 (to April 19, 2014). He was a courageous HIV/AIDS activist, a preventative health care advocate, and a pioneering faith community leader. Oliver Wendell Martin, III was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and adopted at birth by Uther Jean Jones and Oliver W. Martin Jr. His large and loving family of seven brothers would later include a stepfather, Ernest R. Jones. Martin described his family heritage as African, Spanish, Indigenous American, and […]

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Morgan Powell

November 25, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Morgan Powell was born on November 25, 1973 (to September 29, 2014). He was a beloved Bronx, New York-based historian, ecologist, landscape designer, environmental activist, and gardener with a passion for Black history. Powell used that knowledge in founding Bronx River Sankofa, and shared his research as a major contributor to the Bronx African American History Project. Kristopher Morgan Powell was born in Mandevol, Jamaica, the youngest child of engineer Mervin Grant and civil servant Barbara Myfanwey Powell. He had […]

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Robin Roberts

November 23, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Robin Roberts was born on November 23, 1960. She is a television broadcaster and media personality, currently the anchor of the ABC morning show, “Good Morning America,” where she has been a fixture since 2005. Robin René Roberts was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the daughter of Lucimarian Tolliver and Colonel Lawrence E. Roberts, a celebrated pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen. The youngest of four siblings, Roberts grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, and credited her parents as cultivating the “three […]

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Jeffrey McCune

November 23, 2017 by The Altruistic Dissenter

Jeffrey McCune was born on November 23, 1977. He is an author, professor, public speaker, and spiritual leader. Jeffrey Quinn McCune, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Sandra Brown (Hobbs) and Jeffrey McCune, Jr. He is the eldest of six siblings, raised in the household of Sandra Brown and Ronald Brown. McCune always says he has three parents, as all parties were active in his life. In 2015, Jeffrey married Terence McCune, a therapist to HIV+ black men in […]

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Category Archives: November

Pepe Julian Onziema

Billy Strayhorn

Colman Domingo

Ephraim Lewis

Simon Tseko Nkoli

Oliver W. Martin III

Morgan Powell

Robin Roberts

Jeffrey McCune