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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Faith Prather is the eldest of three daughters of the late Marvin and Ethel Prather. Faith is a native of Buffalo, New York, who currently makes her residence in Rochester, New York. Faith is an assoc...

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Sarah Goggins Pittman

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Sarah Goggins Pittman is a successful Buffalo-based businesswoman. As a former admissions counselor and student recruiter at Bryant and Stratton, she encouraged and guided hundreds of students through...

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Tanya Perrin-Johnson

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Tanya received her B.S. from Syracuse University and her M.S. Ed. from Canisius College. She started her career as a fourth-grade teacher at St. Columba School. She then worked as a counselor for Tran...

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Eva Nelson Williams

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Biography appears in Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of WNY, Volume III Eva Williams was born on March 28, 1951. Her mother and father were Bernice and Albert Nelson. She h...

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Kawanza McCall

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Kawanza McCall is an Account Executive for WGRZ-TV, Channel 2, the local NBC affiliate. Ms. McCall has held several positions in the Engineering, News and Public Relations Departments. In 1997, Kawanz...

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Tameka Hutcherson

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Tameka was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She grew up attending St. John’s Baptist Church and was a member of the Junior Choir. At an early age, she loved sports. She played basketball and soft...

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Theresa Humes Johnson

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Born and raised in the city of Buffalo, the eldest daughter of Emanuel and Lillie Humes (now of Los Angeles, California) was brought up in a very musical home. All five of the Humes children took pian...

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Karla Clapp Holloway

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Karla FC Holloway is the Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Duke University where she holds the William R. Kenan Professorship of English and African American Studies. Professor Hollowa...

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Robin Annette Hicks

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Robin Annette Hicks, the youngest of seven, was born February 18, 1960. Surrounded by six siblings, she established her position in the family and developed into a very independent, self-reliant indiv...

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Pamela Ann Gayles Johnson

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Pamela Ann Gayles Johnson was born to Edward Cato Gayles II and Lula Lucritia Adams Gayles on April 24, 1949. Pamela was the ninth child of seventeen brothers and sisters. She and her siblings formed ...

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Lula Lucritia Gayles Herring

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Lula Lucritia Adams was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1918. Her parents, Maze Gregg Adams and Edna Earl Miller Adams moved to Buffalo when their daughter was just eight months old. Lula met and married...

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Rani Hale Cox-Rawles

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Rani Hale was born in Buffalo to George and Robuty Hale on November 9, 1927. She attended Elementary School #12 and graduated from Fosdick Masten Park High School. Rani was an exemplary student, a pat...

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