Netflix’s Upcoming Documentary “Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” Shows the More Human Side of Hip-Hop’s GOAT

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Netflix’s Upcoming Documentary “Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” Shows the More Human Side of Hip-Hop’s GOAT

Netflix's Upcoming Documentary "Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell" Shows the More Human Side of Hip-Hop's GOAT

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Journalist Robert Clyve Maynard, owner, editor and publisher of The Oakland Tribune, was born in the borough of Brooklyn, NY.

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Michael Sam is an American footballer who plays for the Dallas Cowboys. He is also one of the few openly gay players in the National Football League (NFL). He was born Michael Alan Sam Jr. to Jo Ann and Michael Sam, the seventh of eight children in the family. He attended Hitchcock High School in

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In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the

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1984

Aretha Franklin

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Davy, Gloria (1931-2012)

Gloria Davy, a rich-voiced (lirico-spinto) soprano who “sang for the sheer joy of singing” had a four decade career as a concert singer. Early in her career she replaced Leontyne Price as Bess in the 1954 international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1958 she broke color barriers when she

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Holmes, Benjamin M. (1846-1875)

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Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. was a legendary singer and recording artist who came to be known as the “Prince of Soul”. Gaye was born on April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C. He was raised by his father “Reverend Marvin Gay Sr.” who was a very strict guardian. Gaye was musically

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Kirby Puckett was a professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins of the Major Baseball League. He was born on March 14, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in a public housing project in Chicago. He attended and graduated from Calumet High School, where he played baseball. Due to his short

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1958

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1934

Buddy Guy is born.

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Jul

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1936

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1990

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1958

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1972

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18

1970

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1969

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