Grace Beverly Jones is an actress, model, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She was born on this day in 1948 in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a playwright, and writer, whose seminal play, A Raisin in the Sun, was born on this day in 1930 in Chicago.
William Theodore ‘Willie T’ Ribbs, Jr, is a race car driver and sports shooting competitor. On this day in 1991, he became the first Black person to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 Race.
On this day in 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm Little was born. Over the next two decades, he was to become, in the words of Ossie Davis, ‘our own shining Prince’. He became Malcolm X, the American Muslim leader dealing with the plight of black people in America. Then he became El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, a ‘traditional’ Muslim and a pan-Africanist who wanted to internationalize the struggle.
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