Hollywood Confidential Panel Series Returns With An Intimate Conversation Featuring Meagan Good

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Hollywood Confidential Panel Series Returns With An Intimate Conversation Featuring Meagan Good

The Hollywood Confidential panel series is back outside and returning with a bang! On Monday, May 9th at 7PM, actress, director and producer Meagan Good will join Hollywood Confidential creator […]

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Evander Holyfield is a retired professional boxer and ex-world heavyweight champion. He was born on October 19, 1962 in Atmore, Alabama. He was the youngest of 9 children and began boxing at the age of 12 when he won the Boys Club boxing tournament. By the age of 13, he competed in the Junior

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19

1962

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Veteran publicist Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first African American to serve as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, followed the path of her pioneering sibling as a top-tier executive in the Hollywood motion picture industry. Ashley A. Boone Jr. (1939-1994),her brother, had

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JOHN Singleton,31,director,screenwriter(Boyz N the Hood),born Los Angeles, Ca, Jan 6, 1968.

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1968

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Etta James was a Grammy Award winning iconic singer who was known for her hits such as “I’d Rather Go Blind” and “At Last”. Her birth name was Jamesetta Hawkins and she was born to a 14 year old single mother named Dorothy Hawkins on January 25, 1938, in Los

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Name at birth: Christopher Breaux

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Davis, Angela Yvonne

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1988

Verrett, Shirley (1931-2010)

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Loren Miller: Legal Crusader in the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century

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Mercer, Mabel Alice Wadham (1900-1984)

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1988

Six-day insurrection started in L.A.

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Courville, Cindy L. (1954– )

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Harris, Everette “E” Lynn (1955-2009)

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Thomas Bradley was elected mayor of Los Angeles at a time when Blacks represente

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Laurence Fishburne

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Serena Williams

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1981

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Sugar Ray Leonard

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17

1956

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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1956

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