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Maurice Tomlinson

April 9, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Maurice Tomlinson was born on April 9, 1971. He is a courageous attorney-at-law, law lecturer, human rights and LGBTQ advocate, and a prominent HIV and AIDS activist in Jamaica, the Caribbean, and Canada for more than two decades. Maurice A. Tomlinson was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica to Carmen Tomlinson, a cashier, and his father, George Tomlinson, a telephone technician. Tomlinson has one older and one younger brother, both of whom migrated to North America. Tomlinson attended two different high schools in Jamaica, Cornwall College in […]

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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 […]

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Rodney Evans

February 23, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Rodney Evans was born on February 24, 1971. He is a celebrated director, producer, editor, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Rodney Evans was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Jamaica, Queens. After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1989, he enrolled at Brown University, where he obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Modern Culture and Media/Film Production. Evans furthered his education in the graduate program at The California Institute of the Arts, and received a Master […]

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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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Stéphane Tchakam

December 16, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Stéphane Tchakam was born on December 16, 1971 (to August 13, 2012). He was a skillful writer, and a revered Cameroonian journalist, social critic, and LGBTI activist. Stéphane Tchakam was born in the small village of Bayangam, in the Central African nation of Cameroon. When he was just seven years old, he was reading the Tunisian intellectual publication, “Jeune Afrique,” and absorbing its ideas about a post-colonial Africa and human rights. An intensely bright student who could always be seen […]

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Tuan N’Gai

November 16, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Tuan N’Gai was born on November 16, 1971. He is an activist, author, publisher, ordained minister, and co-founder of the Operation: REBIRTH social justice movement. Born Tuan N’Gai Ingram, he is a native of Wichita Falls, Texas, the first child of Reverend Kenneth and Mrs. Gilda Williams. Raised in the church, N’Gai was groomed for ministry by his late grandfather from the age of eight. He became very active in the Eastside Baptist Church music and youth departments, eventually becoming […]

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Robert Jones, Jr.

April 21, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

  Robert Jones, Jr. (“Son of Baldwin”) was born on April 21, 1971. He is an influential writer, blogger, novelist, activist, critical thinker, and a self-described nerd who finds it difficult to conceive of leaving this world in the condition he found it. Robert Jones, Jr. was born in New York City to Robert Sr., a career military man, and his mother Joan, a nurse’s aide by profession and a seamstress by design. He is the oldest of three siblings […]

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