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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #WongTunes #KaydenWong Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 20 Kayden Wong 1991 - Present Biography WongTune$, born Kayden Wong, is an Artist, Producer, Engineer and Educator hailing from Laurelton, Queens. His multi-faceted...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #KoolHerc Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 19 DJ Kool Herc 1955 - Present Biography Born Clive Campbell in Jamaica, he migrated to the United States as a child. Today, DJ Kool Herc is considered one of the pioneers of hip hop...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #FlorencePrice Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 18 Florence Price 1887 - 1953 Biography Florence Smith was born in Little Rock (Pulaski County) to James H. Smith and Florence Gulliver Smith. Her father was a dentist in Little...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #KennethGamble #LeonAHuff Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 16 Kenneth Gamble – 1943 Leon A. Huff – 1942 Biography Gamble and Huff met in the early 1960’s. Their first collaboration was with Gamble’s band, the Romeos,...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #GalvinBisserup Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 16 Galvin P. Bisserup, Jr. @galvinbisserup 1946 - Present Biography Galvin P. Bisserup, Jr. is the owner and principal portrait photographer of Glickman Studio...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #TalleyBailey Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 15 Talley Bailey 1918 - 1995 Biography Talley Beatty was born in Cedar Grove, Louisiana, a section of Shreveport, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Beatty began studying dance at...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #JacobLawrence Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 13 Jacob Lawrence 1917 - 2000 Biography Jacob Lawrence was the son of Southern migrants. He attended free art classes at Utopia Children’s House, where he showed a talent for...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #EricaBuddington Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 12 Erica Buddington @ericabuddington 1989 - Present Biography Erica Buddington is a first generation Caribbean-American, Middle/ High school educator, emcee, poet, and...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #ThorntonDial Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 11 Thornton Dial 1928 - 2016 Biography Thornton Dial was born in 1928 to a teenage mother, Mattie Bell, on a former cotton plantation in Emelle, Alabama, where relatives in his...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #MargaretTaylorBurroughs Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 10 Margaret Taylor-Burroughs 1915 - 2010 Biography Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #GordonParks Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 9 Gordon Parks 1912 - 2006 Biography Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas. His father, Jackson Parks, was a vegetable farmer, and the family lived...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #NichellTaylor Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 8 Nichell Taylor @nichell_singerwriter 1971 - Present Biography Nichell Taylor, who has worked successfully in media for more than 30 years, is the founder and consultant team...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #AudreLorde Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 7 Audre Lorde 1934 - 1991 Biography Audre Geraldine Lorde was born in New York City. Lorde's love of poetry started at a young age, and she began writing as a teenager. She...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #PearlPrimus Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 6 Pearl Primus 1919 - 1994 Biography Pearl Primus, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and teacher whose performance work drew on the African American...
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#blackhistorymonth #BlackCreatives #MaRainey Black History Month - Black Creatives Day 5 Ma Rainey 1886 - 1939 Biography Ma Rainey was born Gertrude Pridgett on April 26, 1886, in Columbus, Georgia, to minstrel troupers Thomas Pridgett, Sr. and Ella Allen-Pridgett....
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