📚History & Birthday Facts 10/18
🎤 Ne-Yo — Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and record producer.
📚 Terry McMillan — Bestselling novelist and author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
🎶 Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley — R&B and gospel singer and actress, best known for her hit "Thanks for My Child."
🏀 Brittney Griner — Professional basketball player, WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
🎭 Joy Bryant — Actress and former fashion model, known for Antwone Fisher and Parenthood.
🎸 Chuck Berry (1926–2017) — Legendary rock and roll pioneer, guitarist, singer and songwriter, known for "Johnny B. Goode."
🎵 Vickie Winans — Award-winning gospel singer and recording artist.
🎺 Wynton Marsalis — Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader and Pulitzer Prize winner.
🎬 Crystal Renee Hayslett — Actress, costume designer and producer, best known for portraying Fatima Wilson in Tyler Perry's Sistas and Zatima.
🎶 Esperanza Spalding — Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist, singer, songwriter and composer.
🎭 Joe Morton — Emmy Award-winning actor, known for Scandal, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The Brother from Another Planet.
🎬 Calvin Lockhart (1934–2007) — Bahamian-American actor, known for Cotton Comes to Harlem, Let's Do It Again and Coming to America.
🥊 Thomas "Hitman" Hearns — Legendary professional boxer and multiple-division world champion, known for his historic fights with Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler and Roberto Durán.
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1967🎶Louis Armstrong released "What a Wonderful World." It goes to #1 in the UK, but takes a lot longer to catch on in the US, not until 1988 when it's used in the film Good Morning, Vietnam
1994🎶Digable Planets released their 2nd album Blowout Comb
2005🎶Bun B released his debut solo album Trill
2008🎶T.I. claims the top two spots on the Hot 100 with "Live Your Life" (featuring Rihanna) at #1, followed by "Whatever You Like."
2021☆Kanye West legally changes his name to the mononym Ye, his longtime nickname
Happy Black Poetry Day
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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