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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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Elaine Hennie Megna

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Hennie-Megna is a native of the Bronx, New York. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Hunter College. In 1974, she moved to Buffalo to attend Dental School at the University at Buffalo Schoo...

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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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Sharon Hanson

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Sharon Hanson is Buffalo born and raised. She is the oldest of seven siblings, the mother of two daughters, and grandmother of five: Unique, Darious, Dara, Serina, and Cierra. Her parents are LaRue an...

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Audre Lorde

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Uncrowned Queens thanks the New York State Writer's Institute for permission to reprint the biography and selected works of Audre Lorde on this Web site. Audre Lorde, poet, essayist, novelist and teac...

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Ruthann Evege Grey

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Ruthann Grey was born in Buffalo and lived here for her first 30 years. She attended School 17 and Lafayette High School . She graduated from State University College with a BS and MS in Education. Sh...

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Jamillah Raheem Green

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Jamillah was born on March 17, 1971 in Buffalo, New York to Bessie Lee (Paul) Thomas and Jamel Abdul Raheem. Jamillah attended McKinley High School where she studied plumbing and later graduated from ...

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ernestine Riddick Green

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Ernestine R. Green was born in Queens, New York. She is the daughter of Eugene and Bertha Riddick and is proud to be from a family of seven girls. She came to Buffalo in 1955 to attend Buffalo State T...

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Ruby Benton Grandberry

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Ruby Lee Benton was born on April 29th to the late Reverend and Mrs. James Benton. The third of five children, she attended Public School #75 and graduated from Hutchinson Central High School. After a...

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