by FikesRobert | Aug 20, 2017 | Global African History, People
Aubrey “Drake” Graham is a Grammy Award-winning rapper, actor, and songwriter. He was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Sandi Graham, a Jewish Canadian, and Dennis Graham, a Black drummer from Memphis, Tennessee. The couple divorced when Drake...
by FikesRobert | Aug 20, 2017 | African American History, People
Sophia Angeli Nelson is an author, journalist, lawyer, and political strategist. Nelson was born on January 5, 1967, in Munich, Germany, where her father served overseas in the U.S. Army. She was raised in Somerdale, New Jersey, and attended San Diego State University...
by McBrideColin | Aug 19, 2017 | African American History, People
Kimberle Crenshaw is a Professor of Law and an advocate and educator for civil rights, race studies, constitutional law, and social inclusion. She currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as Columbia University. Crenshaw was born...
by BrianHoffman | Aug 17, 2017 | African American History, People
Abner Louima, an activist against police brutality, is unfortunately best known for being brutalized, sexually assaulted, and savagely beaten by New York Police Department officers in 1997. Louima was born in 1966 in Thomassin, Haiti, the oldest of his parents’ four...
by FeldmanLaurie | Aug 17, 2017 | African American History, People
Veronica D. Abney is a training and supervising psychoanalyst with the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (1991). She specializes in trauma associated with childhood sexual abuse and practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Santa Monica, California, and Los...
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