by David H. Jackson Jr. | May 11, 2022 | Caribbean Head of State, Global African History, People
John Antonio Briceño was born Juan Antonio Briceño on July 17, 1960, in Orange Walk Town, British Honduras (now Belize), to Elijio Eloy Briceño, a government minister. John had six brothers and three sisters. In 1978, he graduated from Muffles College in Belize City,...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 25, 2018 | Global African History, People
Richard L. Davis is a distinguished historian of middle-period and late imperial China. He was born in Buffalo, New York to Darcy Raymond Williams, a minister of Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, and Jessie Mae Belton Davis. In 1973, he earned bachelor’s degrees in...
by FriedRebecca | Nov 22, 2018 | African American History, People
Jackson L. Davis III, M.D., is a retired Brigadier General in the Air National Guard. In his last assignment he was assistant to the command surgeon, Air Mobility Command, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois from October 1996 to November 2000. He also served as the...
by BlockWilliam | Jul 1, 2018 | African American History, People
Retired Lt. General John D. Hopper was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1947. He attended Lyndon McKinley high school in Columbus, Ohio and entered the Air Force Academy in 1965. In high school, Hopper was an avid high school athlete, involved...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Nov 25, 2017 | African American History, People
Larry Spencer is a retired Air Force 4-star General who began his military service in 1971 as an eighteen-year-old private. Spencer was born on August 1, 1954, in Washington, D.C., to Alfonzo Spencer, a disabled career Army mechanic, and Selma Gaines Spencer. After...
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