"If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be."
– Maya Angelou
Poet, author, dancer, civil rights activist, and educator Dr. Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928. She worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom she greatly admired, in 1960 when she directed the New York office of the SCLC*. MLK died April 4, 1968 on her 40th birthday. She was profoundly affected by his life and his death.
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the
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Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.
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That's why you could create a white middle class with [Black] folk gaining no access to it. And then they create these housing projects that go all the way up to pack folk in, like sardines.
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Randolph Evans (1961–1976) was a 15-year-old ninth-grade boy at Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn. He was shot and [executed] by NYPD [pig] Robert Torsney on November 25, 1976.
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“Follow Hannah Mayree, musician, banjo maker, and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, as they organize workshops and performances celebrating the banjo’s Black history.”
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