Happy Birthday Hammond B-3 Organ Booker T. Jones!
🍾Booker T. Jones, born November 11, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee, is one of Soul and Rock music’s premier musicians — a multi-instrumentalist and a musical... Read More
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Happy Birthday Always Go with the Feeling Hannibal Lokumbe
🍾Hannibal Lokumbe (aka Marvin Peterson), born November 11, 1948, is a composer and jazz trumpeter. Over the past 4 decades, he has composed classical works for... Read More
Here! Here! Happy Birthday Greetings Benjamin Banneker
🎂In his time, Benjamin Banneker, born November 9, 1731, was something of a Renaissance man. He was: a surveyor; a writer who penned Almanacs and Ephemeris... Read More
Birthday Greetings Zadie Adeline Smith
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🎂Zadie Adeline Smith, born October 25, 1975 in London, England, is an British novelist, essayist, and writer who has won in multiple awards for her best... Read More
Happy Birthday Greetings Aubrey Drake Graham
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🍾🍾Aubrey Drake Graham, born October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur — a prominent figure in music today.... Read More
Happy Birthday Michael Eric Dyson
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🍾Michael Eric Dyson, born October 23, 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, is an academic, author, minister, and radio host who was a professor of sociology at... Read More
Dawoud Bey: An American Project — Review
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When you visit a museum or gallery to take in an exhibition, do you ponder the display process? Do you stand back and survey the... Read More
Phillis Wheatley Peters first Published Enslaved African Poet
Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753-54 – December 5, 1784) was born in West Africa (present day Gambia or Senegal), captured as a child, and sold... Read More