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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
Momma Cherri's Birthday
Momma Cherri's born Charita Jones, in the 1950s Philadelphia. Charita’s early career was in soul music and even had a group called The Street Angels (with a Top 30 hit).
became a reality-TV star after appearing on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. She runs Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack, in Brighton. A former foster parent, she has two grown-up daughters and lives in Sussex with her second husband, Phil Jones, a librarian
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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
Minister Louis Farrakhan, Sr.
Minister Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr. (born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is the leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam (NOI). He served as the minister of major mosques in Boston and Harlem, and was appointed by the longtime NOI leader, Elijah Muhammad, before his death in 1975, as the National Representative of the Nation of Islam. After Warith Deen Muhammad disbanded the NOI and started the orthodox Islamic group American Society of Muslims, Farrakhan started rebuilding the NOI. In 1981 he revived the name Nation of Islam for his organization, previously known as Final Call, regaining many of the Nation of Islam's National properties including the NOI National Headquarters Mosque Maryam, reopening over 130 NOI mosques in America and the world.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (previously Judkins; born May 13, 1950), better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950, being the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway.
Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Mary Wells Birthday
Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) born near Detroit's Wayne State University, to a mother who worked as a domestic and an absentee father.
She was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with The Miracles, The Temptations, The Supremes, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the color lines in music at the time."
She was considered "The Queen of Motown"until her departure from the company in 1964, at the height of her popularity.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Donna Richardson Joyner
Donna Richardson Joyner (born May 13 1957 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American fitness and aerobics instructor, author and ESPN television sports commentator.
Widely known for her series of fitness videos, she was appointed in 2006 by President George W. Bush to serve on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. She also produces and hosts Donna Richardson: Mind, Body, & Spirit, which airs on TV One.
On July 29, 2000, Richardson married radio host Tom Joyner in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
She resides in Dallas, Texas and is a staunch Washington Redskins supporter.
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
Dennis Rodman
Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" and "The Worm" and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities.
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Tamara Dobson
Tamara Dobson (May 14, 1944 - October 2, 2006) was an American actress and fashion model. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland and received her degree in fashion illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Dobson, stood 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm), eventually became a fashion model for Vogue Magazine. She made a few films in Hollywood but is best known for her roles in the Blaxploitation films, Cleopatra Jones (1973) and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975).
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
Ray Lewis
Ray Anthony Lewis (born May 15, 1975 in Bartow, FL) is an American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). Since being drafted by the Ravens in 1996, he has been selected to twelve Pro Bowls and been named an Associated Press All-Pro ten times. He won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2000 and 2003; he was the sixth player to win the award multiple times. He was also the second linebacker to win the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award and the first linebacker to win the award on the winning Super Bowl team.
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Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana) is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years. She is ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the richest women in entertainment.
The youngest child of the Jackson family, she began her career with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976 and went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
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Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Ralph Tresvant
Ralph Tresvant, aka Rizz (born Ralph Edward Tresvant, Jr. on May 16, 1968) is an American tenor singer, best known as one of the lead singers in New Edition.
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