Black History Facts & Birthdays 8/26

• Keke Palmer — Actress, singer, television host and producer

• Evan Ross — Actor and singer

• Valerie Simpson — Singer, songwriter and producer; one-half of Ashford & Simpson

• James Harden — Professional basketball player

• Katherine Johnson — NASA mathematician whose calculations helped make U.S. human spaceflight possible (died 2020)

• Cordae — Rapper, singer and songwrit

• Mike Colter — Actor, best known for playing Luke Cage

• Cassie — Singer, actress, model and dancer

• Branford Marsalis — Jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader

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• 1918📚Katherine Johnson a pioneering mathematician whose calculations were major to the success of US space missions was born. The movie Hidden Figures, it tells the story of her and 2 other amazing Black women. Dorothy Vaughan & Mary Jackson 

• 1920📚Women's suffrage was signed into law finally giving all women the right to vote. Historians give much credit to Black women which helped to fuel the movement. Black women weren't allowed to fully vote until 1965

• 2000🎶De La Soul's Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump, their 1st album in four years, debuts at #9

  
  

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