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Feb 18, 2021 Biographies

Mia Ayers-Goss is a compassionate community servant with the ability to motivate and inspire individuals in identifying their potential, and to continue and share this potential to serve others. With ...

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Tina Wallace Allen

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Feb 18, 2021 Biographies

Tina Allen, born Tina Wallace in Buffalo, NY November 20, 1980. Tina received her high school diploma from Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts where she majored in Music, studying violin an...

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Barbara Merriweather Sims

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Nov 15, 2020 Biographies

Barbara Merriweather Sims has enjoyed a career both as a school teacher and as an attorney. Just before attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law, she passed the citywide te...

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Florence Hargrave Curtis

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Nov 10, 2020 Biographies

Florence Hargrave Curtis, a native of Buffalo, is the daughter of the late Ashley S. and Annie Whitehead Hargrave. She began her education in the Buffalo Public Schools. She has an Associate's degree ...

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Fatima Morrell

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Oct 25, 2020 Biographies

Dr. Fatima Morrell earned a Bachelor's degree in Spanish, Cum Laude, and a Master's degree in Foreign and Second Language Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also received ...

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E. Jeannette Ogden

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Sep 7, 2020 Biographies

E. Jeannette Ogden is a Buffalo City Court Judge presently presiding over the Domestic Violence Court. Mayor Anthony M. Masiello appointed Judge Ogden to the Court in June of 1995. He cited her broad ...

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Crystal Davis Peoples-Stokes

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Sep 6, 2020 Biographies

In December 2018 Assemblywoman Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes was elevated to the position of Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly. Peoples-Stokes has served Buffalo's 141st Assembly District sin...

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Clara Louise Payne

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Jun 19, 2020 Biographies

Clara Louise Payne was a member of an old established Buffalo family. Her father, Thomas W. Payne was a native of Richmond, Virginia and worked as an office clerk according to the 1920 census. Her mot...

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Charles A. Dickson

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May 31, 2020 Biographies

In a 1913 newspaper article Charles A. Dickson described his parents in warm and loving terms. He wrote that his mother, Phoebe Ann Lane Dickson was "a witty and well-educated woman". A native of Alba...

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James H. Lyons

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Mar 22, 2020 Biographies

James H. Lyons was a lifelong Buffalo resident and a leader in black community affairs. He was Buffalo's first black disc jockey. He was widely known in the late 1950s and 60s for conducting his own s...

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Elmira Brockenborough

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Mar 19, 2020 Biographies

Elmira Brockenborough was two years old when she died from scarlet fever on September 24, 1874. She was the first African American recorded to have been buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Elmira was the ...

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Cravane Middlebrooks Givens

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Mar 7, 2020 Biographies

Cravane Middlebrooks Givens was born on June 16, 1932 in Buffalo, NY. He was the fifth of six children of the late William H. and Estelle Roberts Givens. He was baptized into First Shiloh Baptist Chur...

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