Tag: 1977

Gee Smalls

March 26, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Gee Smalls was born on March 24, 1977. He is a father, husband, philanthropist, writer, blogger, love coach, brand ambassador, entrepreneur, event producer, LGBTQ activist, and community leader. Gee Smalls was born as Gregory V. Smalls, in Baltimore, Maryland. His Black father, the late Virgil F. Smalls, was retired from the Navy; his white mother, Rita F. Smalls, is a caregiver for kids and seniors. He has one older sister, Tawnya C. Smalls. The family relocated to Charleston, South Carolina shortly after […]

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Adejoke Tugbiyele

December 4, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Adejoke Tugbiyele was born on December 4, 1977. She is an award-winning, queer, Black artist and advocate. She was a featured participant in CultureSummit 2017-Abu Dhabi, is a recipient of the 2016 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, one of 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015, and a U.S. Fulbright Student Alumni. While a graduate student at Maryland Institute College of Art, Tugbiyele was awarded the Amalie Rothschild ’34 Rinehart Award in 2012 and the William M. Phillips ’54 Scholarship for Best […]

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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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Ethel Waters

October 31, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Ethel Waters was born on October 31, 1896 (to September 1, 1977). She was an American blues, jazz, and gospel vocalist. As an actress, Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, and the first Black woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award. Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, a result of the rape of her mother, Louise Anderson, at age 13 by John Waters, a pianist and family acquaintance from a mixed-race […]

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Jasmyne Cannick

October 22, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Jasmyne Cannick was born on October 22, 1977. She is a respected and nationally known LGBTQ advocate, writer, commentator, and public speaker, best known for her work at the intersection of race, politics, class, and sexual orientation and identity. She was honored as one of “Essence” magazine’s 25 Women Shaping the World, one of the Most Influential African Americans in Los Angeles Under 40, one of Los Angeles’ Most Fascinating Angelenos by “LA Weekly,” and “The Advocate” named her as one […]

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Gareth Henry

October 20, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Gareth Henry was born on October 20, 1977. He is an LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS, and social justice activist who fled to Toronto, Canada after experiencing homophobic violence and threats in his native Jamaica. Gareth Boyd Henry was born in St. Mary’s, a small town on the northern coast of Jamaica, to an absentee father with whom Henry has had no relationship, and a mother who was in her teens when he was born. While Henry’s sister was primarily raised by their […]

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DeMarco Majors

September 6, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

DeMarco Majors was born on September 6, 1977. He is an actor, model, personal trainer, and television host. As a professional basketball star, Majors was the first active male player to come out as gay. DeMarco Majors was born in Evansville, Indiana, where he grew up in poverty with his mother and two sisters. For Majors, basketball was his escape—even though he started out playing soccer in school. “Growing up Black in Indiana in the ’80s—that wasn’t a great thing for me,” […]

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William Brandon Lacy Campos

August 31, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

William Brandon Lacy Campos was born on August 31, 1977 (to November 9, 2012). He was a poet, writer, social media personality, prolific blogger and columnist, as well as a policy wonk, organizer, and warrior focusing on civil rights, feminism, LGBTQ equality, and HIV/AIDS. Known simply as Brandon to his many friends, William Brandon Lacy Campos was born in Duluth, Minnesota, to Deborah Carey Watt and William Edward Lacy. His great-great uncle was historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the second […]

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Wade Davis

July 28, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Wade Davis was born on July 28, 1977. Former NFL player Wade Davis is a thought leader, writer, public speaker, and educator on gender, race, and orientation equality. While in the NFL, Davis played for the Tennessee Titans, the Washington Redskins, and the Seattle Seahawks, as well as for two different teams within the NFL Europe league. In 2012, Davis “invited in” the rest of the world in an interview owning his sexuality as a gay man. Davis is now the […]

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Kalup Linzy

July 23, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Kalup Linzy was born on July 23, 1977. He is an acclaimed American video and performance artist whose humor, social criticism, and compelling satire have caught the attention of the art world and audiences on every continent. Kalup Donte Linzy was born in Clermont, Florida, to the late Samuel Avant, Sr., who was a farmer, and his mother, Constance Linzy, who struggled with schizophrenia, and later, drug addiction. He was raised in Stuckey, Florida, in a close-knit rural community by […]

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Norris Herndon

July 15, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Norris Herndon was born on July 15, 1897 (to June 7, 1977). He was the second president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, founded by his father, Alonzo Herndon, in 1905. He was an important philanthropist, and an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first collegiate-level fraternal organization for African American men. Norris Bumstead Herndon was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the only child of Alonzo Herndon, who had been born into slavery, and Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil, a graduate […]

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Rashod Ollison

July 15, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Rashod Ollison was born on July 15, 1977. He is an award-winning music and culture critic, journalist and gifted author. A native of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Rashod D. Ollison is the son of Raymond Ollison Jr., who was a factory worker for Reynold’s Aluminum, and Dianne Ollison, an executive assistant. Rashod and his two sisters grew up in Hot Springs and later Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood, Arkansas, where he graduated in 1996. Following high […]

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Larry Wilson, Jr.

June 26, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Larry Wilson, Jr. was born in Salinas, California on June 26, 1977. He is a bestselling novelist, poet, professional model, HIV advocate, and community leader. He may be best known for his novels written under his pen name, Dapharoah69: The King of Erotica. He is the son of Larry Curtis Wilson, Sr., and his mother, Barbara McCray (who at the time was a government employee and who has since retired after 25 years of dedicated service). He is the second […]

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