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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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L. Michael Gipson

January 18, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

L. Michael Gipson was born on January 18, 1975. He is a writer, researcher, advocate, cultural curator, and arts critic who has served in the fields of music and literary criticism, education, HIV/AIDS, adolescent reproductive health, as well as youth and community development programming on the local, state, and national levels for more than twenty years. L. Michael Gipson is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and lived there with his mother and siblings before he joined his father, a military […]

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Frankie Knuckles

January 18, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Frankie Knuckles was born on January 18, 1955 (to March 31, 2014). He was a beloved DJ, record producer, and innovative re-mixer who played an important role in developing and popularizing house music in the 1980s and 1990s. Widely considered The Godfather of House Music, Knuckles won the Grammy Award for Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical in 1997, and was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Francis Warren Knuckles, Jr. was born in the New York […]

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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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