February 21 |

Isaac Julien

February 21, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Isaac Julien CBE was born on February 21, 1960. He is a leading international installation artist, filmmaker and academic whose multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. Isaac Julien hails from London’s East End, one of five children born to parents who migrated to the United Kingdom from Saint Lucia. His mother was a nurse; his father worked as a welder. Julien attended local schools, and while in his teens, […]

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Philip Reed

February 21, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Philip Reed was born on February 21, 1949 (to November 6, 2008). He was the first openly gay African American member of the New York City Council, and a passionate HIV/AIDS advocate. Philip Reed was born in New York City, the son of a Black father and a white mother. He and a twin sister were raised in an upper middle class Manhattan environment of prep schools and civil rights activism; Reed would become involved in the 1969 Stonewall […]

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David J. Johns

February 20, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

David J. Johns was born on February 21. He is an educator, community builder, and activist with unique federal policy experience, and a self-described son, brother, uncle, and friend. Since September 1, 2017, Johns has been the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), a civil rights organization dedicated to ending racism, homophobia, and LGBTQ bias and stigma, and empowering Black LGBTQ people, including people living with HIV/AIDS. David J. Johns was born in Culver City, California, the […]

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Barbara Jordan

February 21, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936 (to January 17, 1996). She was an inspiring member of the Texas State Senate, the United States Congress, a respected lawyer, and civil rights activist. Jordan was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern Black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. Barbara Charline Jordan grew up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas. She was the daughter of a Baptist minister, […]

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

Tag: February 21

Isaac Julien

Philip Reed

David J. Johns

Barbara Jordan