Mary Wilson (March 6, 1944 – February 8, 2021) was a founding member of the Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, as well as one of the best-selling girl groups of all-time. The trio reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 with 12 of their singles.
Shaquille O'Neal is 54 today.
DL Hughley is 62 today.
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The [execution] of Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. occurred on March 6, 2015, in Madison, Wisconsin. Robinson, an unarmed 19-year-old man, was [executed by pig]
Bernard LaFayette, a civil rights activist and key figure in the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, has died at age 85. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
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Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. LaFayette laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He helped lead the fight to integrate Nashville, Tennessee, as a student. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. LaFayette was an organizer with the Chicago Freedom Movement and national coordinator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.
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'Powers, who was born into slavery, became a leading figure in American folk art and storytelling. She used traditional techniques to record complex oral histories and religious themes.'
WUGA: New website documents historic displacement of Black neighborhoods in Downtown Athens . “R-51 displaced nearly 400 households and demolished community structures in the 1960s in Downtown Athens. The displacement disproportionately affected Black families, who made up about 60% of the households.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/05/wuga-new-website-documents-historic-displacement-of-black-neighborhoods-in-downtown-athens/
WUGA: New website documents historic displacement of Black neighborhoods in Downtown Athens . “R-51 displaced nearly 400 households and demolished community structures in the 1960s in Downtow…
Fred Williamson (born March 5, 1938), nicknamed "the Hammer", is an American actor, filmmaker, and former football player.
Eddy Grant is 77 today
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A 29-year-old man [Nehemiah Lazar Dillard] died in police custody [in 2012] after he was shot twice with Taser stun guns during an [alleged] altercation with [pigs]
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🧵 Artist, author, and activist Faith Ringgold didn't wait for permission to define herself – she painted, quilted, and wrote her own story for over 90 years. From 1930s #Harlem to her famous "story quilts," her #art remains a testament to #activism and representation.
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Bobby Womack would have been 82 today.
Roy Ayers died a year ago today.
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Authorities said police who witnessed a white [pig]'s shooting of a young [Black Man, unarmed Donald Harp, in 1983] disputed the [pig]'s claim he fired his gun because he was
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