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Cyril Nri

April 25, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Cyril Nri was born on April 25, 1961. He is a highly successful British actor, writer, and director. Cyril Ikechukwu Nri was born in Nigeria to a family who are Igbo. Nri, his three sisters, and their parents fled Nigeria in 1968, prior to the end of the Biafran Civil War. His mother is originally from Barbados, and his father was a successful Nigerian engineer. Nri moved with his family to Portugal when he was seven, and six months later, […]

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Willi Ninja

April 12, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Willi Ninja was born on April 12, 1961 (to September 2, 2006). He was a dancer, performance artist, and choreographer who was featured in the ball community documentary film, “Paris is Burning.” William Roscoe Leake grew up in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens, where he began dancing at the age of seven. He had an undistinguished school career, but his talent soon led him to Manhattan. Arriving in Greenwich Village in the late 1970s, Willi Ninja […]

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Marc Loveless

March 23, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

  Marc Loveless was born on March 23, 1961. He is a public servant, civil rights activist, and an HIV/AIDS advocate. Loveless is the first openly gay former elected official in Chicago, the first Black gay candidate for a citywide office, and a Capuchin Franciscan Friar. Marc Zohntell Loveless was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Benny Dunn Loveless, an electrical engineer and founding member of the local AFSCME union; his mother, Margret, was a cosmetologist, business owner, and cosmetology instructor. He attended Detroit’s Redford High School, and […]

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Clark Bertram Accord

March 6, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Clark Accord was born on March 6, 1961 (to May 11, 2011). He was an accomplished Surinamese-Dutch author and makeup artist. Clark Bertram Accord was born in the capital city of Paramaribo, Suriname. He moved to the Netherlands when he was 17 years old, and completed high school there. Accord went on to train and find work as a nurse at the AMC Hospital in Amsterdam. He went back to school to follow a new career as a beautician and […]

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Jackie Kay

November 9, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Jackie Kay MBE was born on November 9, 1961. She is an award winning Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist who was knighted Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2006 for her “service to literature.” In 2016, she was named the third Scots Makar, the national poet of Scotland. Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. Her biological parents met when her father was a student at Aberdeen University and […]

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Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti

September 23, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti was born on September 23, 1961. She is an award-winning journalist, fiction writer, poet, performance artist, TV personality, spiritual teacher, literary consultant, and life coach. Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Los Angeles. Her mother, Florence, was a teacher and an artist; her father, Herschel, was a doctor and Christian minister. Asanti became an activist when she was twelve, in response to the poverty and struggles she saw as a young child. She […]

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Rikki Beadle-Blair

July 25, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Rikki Beadle-Blair was born on July 25, 1961. He is a multi-talented writer, director, composer, choreographer, designer, producer, and performer whose numerous TV and film credits include “Noah’s Arc” and “Blackbird.” The founder and artistic director of the multi-media production company Team Angelica, Rikki was ranked fourth on the most recent Rainbow List of the 101 most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in the UK. He was appointed to the prestigious Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in […]

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Darryl Moore

July 7, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Darryl Moore was born on July 8, 1961. He was the first openly gay African American elected to office in the East Bay section of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a former Councilmember in Berkeley, California. Darryl Germaine Moore was born in Fontana, California to Leo Moore, who was a machinist, and Vola Moore, who opened her home to foster children from San Bernardino County. Darryl’s parents were foster parents for 35 years, and in that time, brought […]

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Dr. Sharon E. Smith

July 1, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Dr. Sharon E. Smith (“Vijayatara”) was born on July 1, 1961 (to March 13, 2011). She was a respected British researcher, academic, author, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner. She was also the author of several scholarly journal articles, book chapters, reports, and conference papers, all in the field of Western Buddhism and its cultural politics. Sharon Elizabeth Smith was born of African-Caribbean descent in London. Her parents had migrated to the UK from Jamaica; there was poverty, racism and abuse in […]

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Andrea Jenkins

May 10, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Andrea Jenkins was born on May 10, 1961. Jenkins was elected to the Minneapolis City Council in 2017, becoming the first openly Black trans woman elected to public office in the United States. She is also a writer, performance artist, poet, and transgender activist. Andrea Jenkins was raised in North Lawndale, Chicago, participating in the Cub Scouts and playing football at Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy on Chicago’s South Side. She relocated to Minneapolis following graduation, and attended the University of […]

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