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Aundaray Guess

March 28, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Aundaray Guess was born on March 28, 1967. He is a respected writer and playwright, a committed HIV/AIDS activist, and a community builder. Guess is co-editor of the Stephen A. Maglott Ubuntu Biography Project, relaunched in 2017. Aundaray Lamond Guess was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Martha McGhee, who was a factory worker in the rural area of the city. His family moved to Minnesota, and he attended St. Paul Central High School, where he graduated in 1985. As a young man, Guess […]

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E. Patrick Johnson

March 1, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

E. Patrick Johnson, PhD. was born on March 1, 1967. He is an important writer, researcher, scholar, activist, performance artist, and ethnographer. As a highly respected author and performance artist, Johnson has performed nationally and internationally, and has been published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, and performance. E. Patrick Johnson is the youngest of seven children born in Hickory, North Carolina to Sarah M. Johnson, a factory worker and domestic who made education a high priority in her children’s lives. He attended Highland Elementary and […]

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Langston Hughes

February 1, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 (to May 22, 1967). He was a celebrated poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form often called “jazz poetry,” and is best known for both his writing and his leadership during the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes famously wrote about that period when “Harlem was in vogue.” James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri to Caroline Mercer Langston and James […]

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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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G. Winston James

December 11, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

G. Winston James was born on December 11, 1967. He is a widely published Jamaican-born poet, author, essayist, editor, and publisher. Born in Kingston, Jamaica as the last of five children, James’s father was a carpenter by trade, and his mother a domestic. James attended Paterson Catholic Regional High School in New Jersey, where he graduated in 1985. Following high school, James enrolled at Columbia College of Columbia University, and earned his bachelor’s degree in Latin American/Iberian studies. He went on […]

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Craig Hickman

December 8, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Craig Hickman was born on December 8, 1967. He is an organic farmer, small business owner, chef, poet, author, actor, tennis fan, and the first openly gay African American to serve in the Maine House of Representatives. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hickman was adopted by his father, a World War II veteran and Tuskegee Airman, and a mother who took in homeless girls and provided them with a meal, clothing, and a place to stay. He attended Rufus King High […]

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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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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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Alan Rogers

September 21, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Alan Rogers was born on September 21, 1967 (to January 27, 2008). He was an ordained pastor, a U.S. Army Major and Intelligence Officer, a civil rights activist in the gay, lesbian and bisexual military community, and the first known openly gay combat fatality of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The subsequent coverage of his death in the media sparked a debate over the effect of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, and what information should be included in the biography […]

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Created by Stephen A. Maglott (1953-2016). Biographical tributes to distinguished LGBTQ/SGL people of color/African descent.

Tag: 1967

Aundaray Guess

E. Patrick Johnson

Langston Hughes

Louis Farmer

G. Winston James

Craig Hickman

Billy Strayhorn

Ephraim Lewis

Alan Rogers