Black History & Birthday Facts 9/18
Jada Pinkett Smith — Actress, producer & talk-show host
Xzibit — Rapper, actor & television personality
Holly Robinson Peete — Actress, singer & philanthropist
Towanda Braxton — Singer, actress & television personality; member of The Braxtons
Angela Simmons — Entrepreneur, television personality & producer
Ben Carson — Retired neurosurgeon, author & former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Aisha Tyler — Actress, comedian, director & television host
Cappadonna — Rapper & member of the Wu-Tang Clan
Ricky Bell — R&B singer & member of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe
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1850📚As a part of the Compromise of 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law due to the tension between slave and free states. They added stricter laws that required citizens to help capture slaves & all slaves were to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state
1980📚Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez is launched into space aboard the Soyuz 38 from Baikonur Cosmodrome becoming the 1st Cuban cosmonaut, the 1st person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel in outer space. He was also the 1st Hispanic and 1st person of Afro-Cuban ancestry in space
All of your black history facts come from the book:
"The Uneraseable Black Book: We Can't Be Erased" By K.D. Garricks on Amazon
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