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Cicely Tyson. Cecily[ 1][ 2] Louise " Cicely " Tyson ( / ˈsɪsəliː /; December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. [ 9][ 10] Tyson received various awards including three Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Tony Award, an Honorary Academy Award, and a ...
Angela Gabrielle White is an Australian pornographic film actress and director. [2] She has been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame, and in 2020 became AVN's first three-time Female Performer of the Year winner.
Jerry John Rawlings. Akwasi Afrifa, soldier and former politician and head of state of Ghana. Joseph Arthur Ankrah, soldier and second head of state of Ghana. David Anumle Hansen, Ghana Navy Chief of Naval Staff. Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, lieutenant general; commissioned as a lieutenant in 1954 and seconded to the British army on the Rhine.
Computer pioneer who helped calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. Dorothy Vaughan. Wilberforce. The first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at NASA. Mary Jackson. Hampton University. NASA 's first black female engineer. Lilian Lewis. Alpha.
Gordon "Butch" Stewart. George Stiebel, trader and entrepreneur who became Jamaica's first black millionaire. Tom Tavares-Finson, lawyer. Gail Vaz-Oxlade, financial adviser, TV personality. James S. Watson, one of the first Black Americans elected as a judge in the state of New York. Dame Sharon White, businesswoman and Second Permanent ...
2016 (Sunday) 2015 (Saturday) January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 355 days remain until the end of the year (356 in leap years ).
Dido, b. 1971. English singer Dido was born on Dec. 25, but like many other Christmas babies whose parents want them to have a proper birthday, she celebrates the occasion on June 25. She rose to ...
Born in the 1990s-2000s. Ajiona Alexus, actress. Jaylen Barron, actress (half Afro-American, half Mexican) Zazie Beetz (African-American mother), actress [ 1] Rhyon Nicole Brown, actress. Chance The Rapper, rapper. Zendaya Coleman (African-American father), actress and singer [ 2] Jude Demorest, actress. Teala Dunn, actress.