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Post by frozenmenace on Jul 7, 2008 19:59:33 GMT -5
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Jul 7, 2008 20:05:21 GMT -5
 Gonna have to assess a illegal participation penalty on that one buddy... |
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Post by frozenmenace on Jul 7, 2008 20:07:36 GMT -5
Gonna have to assess a illegal participation penalty on that one buddy... Why???  You'd be surprised at how many people don't know who these men are. |
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Jul 7, 2008 20:10:36 GMT -5
Naw Just David Dinkins Buddy....
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Post by frozenmenace on Jul 7, 2008 20:12:49 GMT -5
Naw Just David Dinkins Buddy.... What about him? Is there a discrepancy? |
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Post by BKupInHere on Jul 7, 2008 20:38:54 GMT -5
<--was told that NYC's first Black Mayor was also Hon Andrew Young's Dean when they attended Howard University...see,there are Alphas that can be Mayor without scandal
<--runs as FROZEN stabs her with his ICEICEpick
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Jul 7, 2008 21:03:34 GMT -5
Oh yeah, Andrew Young, Duke Ellington, and Maynard Jackson are as well known as Hosea Williams and Bobby Seale... I put Brothers Young, Jackson and Noble Ellington on here. Maybe I misunderstood the thread. I'm sure most people know them, but I'm sure some may not, but I was thinking you meant famous people who people may not know that they are a member of a particular organization. Hold Up someone put them in here too? Hell Naw |
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Jul 7, 2008 21:12:00 GMT -5
Naw Just David Dinkins Buddy.... What about him? Is there a discrepancy? He is very known buddy, would you like a delay of game penalty too? Keep it moving! |
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Jul 7, 2008 22:23:30 GMT -5
Some I've already posted but too lazy to delete them LOL:
Chaka Fattah - U.S. Congressman, Member of Light of Elmwood Lodge #45
Robert Abbott -Founder of the Chicago Defender
Richard Allen-Founder/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church
Alexander T. Augusta-First African-American to head a hospital in the U.S.
Marion Barry-Mayor of Washington, D.C..
William "Count" Basie-Orchestra leader/composer.
James J.G. Bias-Founder of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.
Henry Blair-First Black to recieve a U.S. patent.
James Herbert "Eubie" Blake-Composer/pianist.
Edward Bouchet-First Black to be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
William Wells Brown-First Black to publish a novel.
Nathaniel "Nat King" Cole-Singer.
Ossie Davis-Actor/director/playwrite.
Martin R. Delany-First Black to matriculate from Havard Medical School/first Black Major in the U.S. Army.
W.E.B. DuBois-Educator/author/historian.
Alexander Dumas-Author.
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington-Orchestra leader/composer.
Medgar Wiley Evers-Civil Rights leader.
James Forten-Abolitionist/manufacturer.
Timothy Thomas Fortune-Journalist.
Marcus Garvey-Founder of the United Negro Improvement Association.
Alex Haley-Author.
William C. Handy /Composer.
Matthew Henson-Explorer.
Benjamin L. Hooks-Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P..
Jesse Jackson-Founder of the Rainbow Coaltion and Operation Push.
Maynard Jackson-first black mayor of Atlanta.
John H. Johnson-Publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.
Jack Johnson-First Black heavyweight boxing champion in U.S..
Absalom Jones-First Black Priest in the Episcopal Church in U.S..
Dr. Ernest Everett Just-A founder of Omega Psi Phi and renowned zoologist.
Don King-Boxing promotor.
Lewis Howard Latimer-Inventor of the carbon filament for light.
Thurgood Marshall-Former Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
Benjamin E. Mays-former president of Morehouse College.
Leon M'Ba- First President of the Republic of Gabon.
Kweisi Mfume-Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P..
Eliajah Muhammed-Founder of the Nation of Islam.
Richard Pryor-Comedian/actor.
Alexander Pushkin-Poet/novelist/playwrite.
A. Philip Randolph-Founder and first president of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Charles Rangel-U.S. Congressman.
Joseph Jenkins Roberts-First President of the Republic of Liberia.
"Sugar"Ray Robinson-Former mid/light heavyweight boxing champion.
Arthur A. Schomburg-Historian/author.
Rev. Al Sharpton-Civil Rights advocate.
Carl B. Stokes-First Black Mayor of Cleveland, Oh..
Louis Stokes-Former U.S. Congressman.
David Walker-Author of "David Walker's Appeal.
Booker T. Washington-Educator and Founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
Daniel Hale Williams-First surgeon to perform open heart surgery.
Bert Williams-Actor/comedian.
Granville T. Woods-Inventor.
Andrew Young-Former Mayor of Atlanta and U.N. Ambassador.
Lawrence Douglas s Wilder - The first Black elected governor in this country from Virginia..
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Jul 8, 2008 14:10:15 GMT -5
Some I've already posted but too lazy to delete them LOL: Chaka Fattah - U.S. Congressman, Member of Light of Elmwood Lodge #45 Robert Abbott -Founder of the Chicago Defender Richard Allen-Founder/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church Alexander T. Augusta-First African-American to head a hospital in the U.S. Marion Barry-Mayor of Washington, D.C.. William "Count" Basie-Orchestra leader/composer. James J.G. Bias-Founder of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee. Henry Blair-First Black to recieve a U.S. patent. James Herbert "Eubie" Blake-Composer/pianist. Edward Bouchet-First Black to be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. William Wells Brown-First Black to publish a novel. Nathaniel "Nat King" Cole-Singer. Ossie Davis-Actor/director/playwrite. Martin R. Delany-First Black to matriculate from Havard Medical School/first Black Major in the U.S. Army. W.E.B. DuBois-Educator/author/historian. Alexander Dumas-Author. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington-Orchestra leader/composer. Medgar Wiley Evers-Civil Rights leader. James Forten-Abolitionist/manufacturer. Timothy Thomas Fortune-Journalist. Marcus Garvey-Founder of the United Negro Improvement Association. Alex Haley-Author. William C. Handy /Composer. Matthew Henson-Explorer. Benjamin L. Hooks-Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P.. Jesse Jackson-Founder of the Rainbow Coaltion and Operation Push. Maynard Jackson-first black mayor of Atlanta. John H. Johnson-Publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines. Jack Johnson-First Black heavyweight boxing champion in U.S.. Absalom Jones-First Black Priest in the Episcopal Church in U.S.. Dr. Ernest Everett Just-A founder of Omega Psi Phi and renowned zoologist.Don King-Boxing promotor. Lewis Howard Latimer-Inventor of the carbon filament for light. Thurgood Marshall-Former Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court. Benjamin E. Mays-former president of Morehouse College. Leon M'Ba- First President of the Republic of Gabon. Kweisi Mfume-Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P.. Eliajah Muhammed-Founder of the Nation of Islam. Richard Pryor-Comedian/actor. Alexander Pushkin-Poet/novelist/playwrite. A. Philip Randolph-Founder and first president of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Charles Rangel-U.S. Congressman. Joseph Jenkins Roberts-First President of the Republic of Liberia. "Sugar"Ray Robinson-Former mid/light heavyweight boxing champion. Arthur A. Schomburg-Historian/author. Rev. Al Sharpton-Civil Rights advocate. Carl B. Stokes-First Black Mayor of Cleveland, Oh.. Louis Stokes-Former U.S. Congressman. David Walker-Author of "David Walker's Appeal. Booker T. Washington-Educator and Founder of the Tuskegee Institute. Daniel Hale Williams-First surgeon to perform open heart surgery. Bert Williams-Actor/comedian. Granville T. Woods-Inventor. Andrew Young-Former Mayor of Atlanta and U.N. Ambassador. Lawrence Douglas s Wilder - The first Black elected governor in this country from Virginia.. Ur um... Dr Ernest E. Just is NOT a Prince Hall Mason and him being a mason period is under serious questioning. Tis all for now |
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Post by Southie on Jul 8, 2008 14:20:19 GMT -5
Soror Violette Anderson Born in 1882, Soror Anderson became the first African American woman attorney admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court on January 29, 1920. To go along with this historic accomplishment, not only was Soror Anderson the first African American woman to practice law in the U.S. District Court Eastern Division, but she was also the first female city prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois. She was a member of the Zeta Zeta Chapter in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to being a well-accomplished woman at law, she was elected Grand Basileus of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. in 1933, and served as Grand Basileus from 1933-1937. I remember reading about soror before I was a Zeta. |
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Jul 8, 2008 22:16:14 GMT -5
VP,
What masonic affiliation is Dr. Just rumored to be a member of?
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Jul 9, 2008 0:25:15 GMT -5
VP, What masonic affiliation is Dr. Just rumored to be a member of? The only hint of masonic affiliation is the relationship he had with a professor while at Dartmouth as told in The Black Apollo of Science. The way it was explained it leaves you with a hint that he maybe either was a Mason or in some sort of secret brotherhood because his teacher (who was white) had a great influence on his studies and kept him focused. |
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Post by Robelite on Jul 10, 2008 11:39:01 GMT -5
What about him? Is there a discrepancy? He is very known buddy, would you like a delay of game penalty too? Keep it moving! Voodoo, You are assessed a penalty for Percy Julian. He is quite well known to many in this nation, and certainly in the AA community. There is a high school named for him in Chicago, and back when I was in college, some of the sharpest kids from Chicago came from that school. |
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Post by grits n gravy on Jul 14, 2008 0:04:20 GMT -5
James Weldon Johnson - Phi Beta Sigma, Creator of the National Black Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Early Years
Born James William Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, on 17 June 1871 — he changed his middle name to Weldon in 1913 — the future teacher, poet, songwriter, and civil rights activist was the son of a headwaiter and the first female black public school teacher in Florida, both of whom had roots in Nassau, Bahamas. The second of three children, Johnson's interests in reading and music were encouraged by his parents. After graduating from the school where his mother taught, Johnson spent time with relatives in Nassau and in New York before continuing with his education.
Johnson as a member of the
Atlanta University Quartette
College
While attending Atlanta University, from which he earned his A.B. in 1894, Johnson taught for two summers in rural Hampton, Georgia. There he experienced life among poor African Americans, from which he had been largely sheltered during his middle-class upbringing in Jacksonville. During the summer before his senior year he attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where, on "Colored People's Day," he listened to a speech by Frederick Douglass and heard poems read by Paul Laurence Dunbar, with whom he soon became friends.
Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson,
and John Rosamond Johnson
Educator and Songwriter
After graduating from Atlanta University, Johnson became the principal of the Jacksonville school where his mother had taught, improving education there by adding ninth and tenth grades. In 1895 he founded a newspaper, the Daily American, designed to educate Jacksonville's adult black community, but problems with finances forced it to shut down after only eight months. While still serving as a public school principal, Johnson studied law and became the first African American to pass the bar exam in Florida.
When Johnson's younger brother, John Rosamond, graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1897, the two began collaborating on a musical theater. Though there attempts to get their comic opera "Tolosa" produced in New York in 1899 were unsuccessful, Johnson's experiences there excited his creative energies. He soon began writing lyrics, for which his brother composed music, including "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which subsequently came to be known as the "Negro National Anthem." The Johnson brothers soon teamed up with Bob Cole to write songs. In 1902, Johnson resigned his post as principal in Jacksonville, and the two brothers moved to New York, where their partnership with Cole proved very successful.
Grace Nail Johnson
Diplomat and Poet
Johnson, though, became dissatisfied with the racial stereotypes propagated by popular music and, in 1903, began taking graduate courses at Columbia University to expand his literary horizons. In 1906 he secured a consulship at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the position allowing him time to write poetry and work on a novel. In 1909 he was transferred to Corinto, Nicaragua, where a year later he married Grace Nail, the daughter of prosperous real estate developer from New York. While still in Nicaragua he finished his novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, which was published anonymously in 1912 in hopes that readers might think it a factual story.
Unable to secure a more desirable diplomatic post, Johnson resigned his consulship in 1913 and returned to the U.S. After a year in Jacksonville, he moved back to New York to become an editorial writer for the New York Age, in which capacity he was an ardent champion for equal rights. In 1917 he published his first collection of poetry, Fifty Years and Other Poems, the title poem having received considerable praise when it had first appeared in the New York Times.
Caricature of Johnson
by Miguel Covarrubias
Activist and Anthologist
In 1916, Joel E. Spingarn offered Johnson the post of field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An effective organizer, Johnson became general secretary of the NAACP in 1920. Though his duties prevented him from writing as much as he would have liked, Johnson found time to assemble three ground-breaking anthologies: The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925), and The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926).
Johnson's second collection of poetry, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, appeared in 1927 and marks his last significant creative endeavor. His administrative duties for the NAACP were proving strenuous, and, after taking a leave of absence in 1929, he resigned as general secretary in 1930. During his final years he wrote a history of black life in New York that focuses on Harlem Renaissance entitled Black Manhattan (1930), his truly autobiographical Along This Way (1933), and Negro Americans, What Now? (1934), a book that argues for integration as the only viable solution to America's racial problems.
Johnson died on 26 June 1938 near his summer home in Wiscasset, Maine, when the car in which he was driving was struck by a train. His funeral in Harlem was attended by more than 2000 people.
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Post by blue1914 on Jul 29, 2008 13:47:51 GMT -5
While he is listed as a famous member of the Blue and White family, he is not nearly as well known as he SHOULD be in America, Brother Kwame Nkrumah. He was the first president of the Republic of Ghana, the first free Ghana and also the credited father of the Pan African Movement. Here is a link to his wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah |
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Post by happy1 on Jul 29, 2008 14:32:03 GMT -5
Spencer Christian formerly of Good Morning America pledged Iota at Hampton University.
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Post by GodsStarChild on Jul 29, 2008 15:45:04 GMT -5
Louis Armstrong
...was an African American jazz musician. Probably the most famous jazz musician of the 20th century, Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative performer whose musical skills and bright personality transformed jazz from a rough regional dance music into a popular art form.
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Post by Troopa1911 on Jul 30, 2008 8:49:04 GMT -5
Dr. Kenneth B Clark - Kappa Alpha Psi (Xi Chapter)
1914 - 2005
"The Doll Test"
Prominent social psychologist and researcher 
Clark grew up with his mother in Harlem, where his childhood heroes included poet Countee Cullen, who taught at his junior high school, and book collector Arthur Schomburg, who served as a curator at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library. After attending integrated elementary and junior high schools, Clark graduated from New York's George Washington High School in 1931. Clark was well-known as an undergraduate at Howard University, where he led demonstrations against segregation in Washington, D.C. While at Howard he met Mamie Phipps, who became his wife and closest intellectual collaborator. The Clark's then went to Columbia University to study psychology, and, in 1940, Kenneth Clark became Columbia's first Black psychology Ph.D. recipient.
Clark joined the faculty of City College in New York City in 1942, becoming that college's first Black permanent professor. He remained at City College until his retirement in 1975, but also served as a visiting professor at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his career, Clark was committed to finding ways to use his knowledge in the social sciences for the cause of racial justice.
In the early 1950s, he frequently served as an expert witness for the NAACP in its legal struggles against segregation. His greatest fame, however, came because of his research on the self-image of Black children. Clark studied the responses of more than 200 Black children who were given a choice of white or brown dolls. This was a break through in twentieth century social science.
From his findings that the children showed a preference for the white dolls from as early as three years old, Clark concluded that segregation was psychologically damaging. This conclusion played a pivotal role in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that outlawed segregated education. The social sciences comprise the application of scientific methods to the study of the human aspects of the world. Psychology studies the human mind and behavior; sociology examines human society and human relationships within it. Social sciences diverge from the humanities in that many in the social sciences emphasise the scientific method or other rigorous standards of evidence in the study of humanity, although many also use much more qualitative methods.
Although Clark fought for racial integration, his book Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power (1965) was popular among Black Nationalists because it compared the situation of Black citizens to that of colonized people. Clark's other writings include Prejudice and Your Child (1953), Crisis in Urban Education (1971), and The Negro American (1966), which he co-edited with Talcott Parsons. His televised interviews with James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. were published in a book entitled The Negro Protest in 1963.
In addition to his activities as a scholar, Clark was involved with a variety of community development programs and served as an adviser to local and national policymakers. In 1946, he and his wife founded the North side Child Development Center in Harlem to serve the needs of emotionally disturbed children. In 1962, Clark also played a key role in the founding of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, a program that influenced President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty program.
As the only Black member of the New York Board of Regents, he continued his fight against segregated education. Clark's work for civil rights earned him the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1961. For his contribution to psychology, Clark was elected president of the American Psychological Association, receiving their Gold Medal Award.
Clark built a consulting firm concentrating on his racial policies. Dr. Kenneth B. Clark died on May 1, 2005.
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Post by Troopa1911 on Jul 30, 2008 8:57:13 GMT -5
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg - Kappa Alpha Psi (Omicron chapter)
was born in Puerto Rico on January 24, 1874. He began his education in a primary school in San Juan, where he studied reading, penmanship, sacred history, church history, arithmetic, Spanish grammar, history, agriculture and commerce. Arturo's fifth-grade teacher is said to have told him that "Black people have no history, no heroes, no great moments." Because of this and his participation in a history club, Schomburg developed a thirst for knowledge about people of African descent and began his lifelong quest studying the history and collecting the books and artifacts that made up the core of his unique and extensive library.
He came to New York in April 1891 and lived on the Lower East Side. He was involved in the revolutionary movements of the immigrant Cubans and Puerto Ricans living in that area, regularly attending meetings and working at odd jobs while attending night school at Manhattan Central High School. Schomburg became a Mason and met bibliophile and journalist John Edward Bruce. "Bruce Grit" introduced Schomburg to the African-American intellectual community and encouraged him to write about African world history and continue to increase his knowledge.
Arturo Schomburg would look everywhere for books by and about African people. He also collected letters, manuscripts, prints, playbills and paintings. He was especially proud of his collection of Benjamin Banneker's Almanacs. In fact, his library contained many rare and unusual items from all over the world. The history of the Caribbean and Latin America and the lives of heroic people in that region was also an area of special interest to Schomburg. And he actively sought any material relative to that subject.
Schomburg's collection became the cornerstone of The New York Public Library's Division of Negro Literature, History, and Prints. He frequently loaned objects from his personal library to the 135th Street Branch of The New York Public Library, which was a center of intellectual and cultural activity in Harlem. In 1926 his collection of 10,000 items was purchased by the Library with the assistance of the Carnegie Corporation. He was later invited to be the curator of the new division which included his collections. He became involved in the social and literary movement that started in Harlem, known as the "Harlem Renaissance." which spread to African-American communities throughout the country. Schomburg fully shared his knowledge of the history of peoples of African descent with the young scholars and writers of the New Negro movement. One of his primary motivations was to combat racial prejudice by providing proof of the extraordinary contributions of peoples of African descent to world history. Schomburg wrote, "I depart now on a mission of love to recapture my lost heritage."
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Post by madeinameraka on Jul 30, 2008 9:43:32 GMT -5
That's cool about Bobby Seale-i met him a few months ago...in his presentation he did a lot of hating on Huey Newton, lol, but it was still a great experience
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Post by BKupInHere on Jul 30, 2008 15:18:54 GMT -5
Thanks Troopa-The Schomburg Library (directly across from Harlem Hospital) was the ONLY place (before the internet) where you could go to see/research Black Greek Letterd Orgs-as well as ANYTHING related to African Diasporic Culture...
Anyone who visits NYC should make it a point to visit the Schomburg Library. They were the first ones to have the private collection of El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz's private letters,journals and personal itms. When I saw Malcolm X's worn out leather satchel,I cried (involuntarily). I hadnt realized the depth of the exhibit.
<--goes to exalt Troopa
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Aug 3, 2008 18:41:34 GMT -5
Thanks Troopa-The Schomburg Library (directly across from Harlem Hospital) was the ONLY place (before the internet) where you could go to see/research Black Greek Letterd Orgs-as well as ANYTHING related to African Diasporic Culture... Anyone who visits NYC should make it a point to visit the Schomburg Library. They were the first ones to have the private collection of El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz's private letters,journals and personal itms. When I saw Malcolm X's worn out leather satchel,I cried (involuntarily). I hadnt realized the depth of the exhibit. <--goes to exalt Troopa They also have a lot of Masonic material as well. |
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Post by happy1 on Aug 3, 2008 18:51:11 GMT -5
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Post by All Pledging Is Legal on May 21, 2010 23:17:53 GMT -5
Did any of these people pledge? Their accomplishements don't mean nothin' if they ain't take no wood!
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Post by pinkngreen06 on May 23, 2010 21:49:11 GMT -5
Soror Mae Jeminson !
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You'd be surprised at how many people don't know who these men are.
