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Cleveland, James

December 5, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

The Reverend Dr. James Cleveland was born on December 5, 1931 (to February 9, 1991). He was a celebrated gospel singer, arranger, composer and, most significantly, the driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound, bringing the stylistic daring of hard gospel, jazz and pop music influences to arrangements for mass choirs. Cleveland is popularly known as the King of Gospel. James Cleveland was a native of Chicago, Illinois who began singing as a boy soprano at Pilgrim […]

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Ellis Haizlip

September 17, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Ellis Haizlip was born on September 17, 1929 (to January 25, 1991). He was a pioneering broadcaster, television host, theater and television producer, and cultural activist. Ellis Haizlip was born in Washington, DC. Details of his early life are elusive, but rumors have persisted that his father was a diplomat who once served as the ambassador to the Court of St. James from Antigua (other accounts claimed Trinidad) and he may have spent many of his formative years in London. […]

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Gilbert Price

September 10, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Gilbert Price was born on September 10, 1942 (to January 2, 1991). He was an accomplished baritone singer and award-winning actor. Gilbert Price was born in New York City, one of three children born to Leon and Carmen Price. His father had had some experience in show business, having worked with Redd Foxx as a comic. His maternal grandmother was from St. Kitts. When Price’s parents separated, his father moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he fathered three other children […]

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Park Cannon

June 6, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Park Cannon was born on June 6, 1991. When she was elected as the youngest member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 2016, she was one of just four openly LGBTQ Black lawmakers in state legislatures nationwide. Park Cannon was born in Albany, Georgia, where was raised on a military base by her father, a Vietnam War veteran, and her mother, a pharmaceutical rep. Following her parents’ divorce, Cannon moved with her mother to Brooklyn, New York, where she […]

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Toni-Michelle Williams

April 6, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Toni-Michelle Williams was born on April 6, 1991. She is a community organizer for Black trans communities in Atlanta, a trap healer who prioritizes underserved Black communities with healing knowledge and practices, a performance artist, impersonator, and self-described “believer in the beautiful and almighty God (love) inside of all of us.” Toni-Michelle Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Corey Tyler Williams and TiJuana Michelle Ponder, a school guidance counselor in DeKalb County Public Schools. She has three siblings from her […]

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

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Cleveland, James

Ellis Haizlip

Gilbert Price

Park Cannon

Toni-Michelle Williams