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Miss Cleo

August 12, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Youree Dell Cleomill Harris was born on August 12, 1962 (to July 26, 2016). Better known as Miss Cleo, she was a self-proclaimed psychic and alleged shaman who achieved television fame as a spokeswoman for a pay-per-call psychic service from 1997 to 2003. Harris was born in Los Angeles, California, to Caribbean Catholic parents who she says knew early on that she was a lesbian. “Nobody really talked about it,” she told “The Advocate.” “It was like the pink elephant […]

Categories: All, August, August 12, Miss Cleo • Tags: 1962, 2016, August 12, July 26, Miss Cleo, Ubuntu Biography Project

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Walter Nicks

July 26, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Walter Nicks was born on July 26, 1925 (to April 3, 2007). He was an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, and teacher of jazz and modern dance whose career spanned six decades. Walter Nicks was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Central High School before attending Howard University from 1942 to 1944. Nicks received some of his earliest dance training with Eleanor Frampton at the Karamu Settlement House in Cleveland. In 1945, Nicks began studying […]

Categories: All, July, July 26, Nicks, Walter • Tags: 1925, 2007, April 3, July 26, Ubuntu Biography Project, Walter Nicks

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