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PHYLLIS LINDA HYMAN (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995)

Phyllis Hyman was born in  Philadelphia ,  Pennsylvania , and grew up in  St. Clair Village , the  South Hills  section of  Pittsburgh . Born to an Italian mother, (Louise), and African-American father, (Phillip),  Hyman was the eldest of seven children. Through her paternal great-grandparents Ishmael and Cassandra (Cross) Hyman, she was also the first cousin once removed of actor  Earle Hyman  (best known for his recurring role on  The Cosby Show  as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable). After leaving Pittsburgh, her music training started at a music school. On graduation, she performed on a national tour with the group New Direction in 1971. After the group disbanded, she joined All the People and worked with another local group, The Hondo Beat. At this time, she appeared in the film  Lenny  (1974). She also did a two-year stint leading a band called "Phyllis Hyman and the P/H Factor". She was discovered in 1975 by...

Walter Edward Williams (born March 31, 1936)

Dr. Walter Williams is an American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views.  Williams's family during childhood consisted of his mother, his sister, and him. His father played no role in raising either child. He grew up in  Philadelphia . The family initially lived in West Philadelphia, moving to North Philadelphia and the Richard Allen  housing projects  when Williams was ten. His neighbors included a young  Bill Cosby . Williams knew many of the individuals that Cosby speaks of from his childhood, including Weird Harold and  Fat Albert . Williams was a talented high school student who displayed a very inconsistent performance in his studies. Following high school, he went to California to live with his father and attend one semester at Los Angeles City College. He later said ...

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)

Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He published his first poem in 1921. He attended Columbia University, but left after one year to travel. His poetry was later promoted by Vachel Lindsay, and Hughes published his first book in 1926. He went on to write countless works of poetry, prose and plays, as well as a popular column for the   Chicago Defender . He died on May 22, 1967. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents, James Hughes and Carrie Langston, separated soon after his birth, and his father moved to Mexico. While Hughes’s mother moved around during his youth, Hughes was raised primarily by his maternal grandmother, Mary, until she died in his early teens. From that point, he went to live with his mother, and they moved to several cities before eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. It was during this time that Hughes first began to write poetry, and that one of his teachers first introduc...

Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable (1745-1818)

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable,  a frontier trader, trapper and farmer is regarded as the first permanent resident of what became Chicago, Illinois.  There is very little definite information on DuSable’s early years. He was born free around 1745 in St. Marc, Saint-Dominique (Haiti). His mother was an African slave, his father a French mariner. DuSable traveled with his father to France, where he embarked on a fruitful education. It was through this and the work that he performed for his father on his ships, that he learned several languages including French, Spanish, English, and many Indian dialects. DuSable arrived in New Orleans in 1765 whereupon he learned the colony had become a Spanish possession. Having lost his identification papers and been injured on the voyage to New Orleans, DuSable was almost enslaved. French Jesuit priests protected him until he was healthy enough to travel. DuSable migrated north, up the Mississippi river, later settling in an area near pre...

Aja L. Brown

Aja L. Brown  (born April 17, 1982)  currently serves as Mayor of  Compton, California . On June 4, 2013, Aja Brown made history as Compton's youngest mayor ever to be elected. She won the election by a landslide, defeating both incumbent mayor  Eric J. Perrodin  and former mayor  Omar Bradley . Aja Brown grew up in  Altadena, California . Her mother, Brenda Jackson, raised her and her twin brother as a single parent. While attending  University of Southern California , she began working for the City of  Gardena, California  in 2004 as an Economic Development Analyst. She soon graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor's Degree in Public Policy, Urban Planning and Development. Just a year later in 2005, she earned a Master's Degree in Urban Planning with a concentration in Economic Development. In 2006, Brown began working for the City of  Inglewood, California  as an Urban Planner. In 2009, she began working for the city of ...

Iron Eyes Cody

(born  Espera Oscar de Corti  April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999)  He was an American  actor  born in Louisiana. Going by the name of Iron Eyes Cody, he portrayed  Native Americans  in  Hollywood  films.  In 1996, his 100 percent  Italian  ancestry was confirmed by his half-sister.   Cody was born  Espera Oscar de Corti  on April 3, 1904, in  Kaplan  in  Vermilion Parish , in southwestern  Louisiana , a second son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from  Sicily . He had two brothers, Joseph William and Frank Henry, and a sister Victoria. His parents had a local grocery store in  Gueydan , Louisiana, where he grew up. His father left the family and moved to  Texas , where he anglicized his name as Tony Corti. His mother married Alton Abshire and had five more children with him. When the three de Corti brothers were teenagers, they joined their...

Educator And Social Worker

     Sue Bertha Coleman's mother was working as a cook for a Huntsville, Alabama family when she decided her daughter should have a college education, something few Alabama women received at the turn of the century.      Coleman graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She began her career as principal of a Tennessee Coal and Iron Company (TCI) school at Muscoda, a large ore mining camp near Bessemer, Alabama. At the end of her third year, she remained on the company's payroll to conduct social work, Coleman was designated as a community supervisor in charge of social services for black miners and their families. Initiative and dedication set her apart from her peers. In 1918, she borrowed $300 from a bank, left her husband in charge of their children, and went to Chicago to study with Jane Addams, the most noted social worker of the day.      On her return, Coleman took over a schedule of regular weekly duties at the "Co...

Ma'at

Maat, the Mother of KT NBT NFRT [All Realities], • Immaculately Conceived the Universe, as the Most High Spoke Creation into Being • Hekau/Breath [Words of Power] • In the Beginning was Hekau and Hekau was made Flesh via Maat • The Universe is the Flesh of Maat and the Spirit of Amen-Ra • On Earth, As it is, in Amenta/Heaven [the Land of Amen] • The Child is the Flesh of the Mother and the Spirit of the Father • Adam, in order to Create, had to engage in the same process that established KT NBT NFRT [All Realities] • Sacredly Conceive with the Feminine Principle/Eve • Everything that exists must structurally conform to the Laws of Maat • Maat is the Template from which All Things are Made. • White Anti-Culture often Blinds Us, from being Organically Rhythmic, and Naturally Flowing • Because, Organically Rhythmic and Naturally Flowing is Our Firmament • Our Terra Firma>>> Maat Queen of All Realities>>> Every Realm must conform to, the Maat...