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< Back Next Minister Louis Farrakhan May 11, 1933 - Present We will also celebrate the birthday of our present-day role model, Minister Louis Farrakhan who was born May 11, 1933. Leader of the Nation of Islam, in the effort to uphold unity among Black people, he has fostered cooperative relations among all religions of Africans. Minister Farrakhan was the co-organizer of the Million Man March, October 16, 1995, the Million Family March on October 16, 2000, and the Million More March on October 14-16, 2005. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Malcolm X May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 This month, we will commemorate the birth of our historical leader, Malcolm X, who was also known as El Hajj El Malik Shabazz. He was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. His father was an organizer in the Marcus UNIA Movement. Malcolm became the national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. By 1965, through his fiery, charismatic speeches of truth, he built a mighty link between the Africans throughout the world. Malcolm founded the OAAU: Organization of Afro- American Unity. He was later assassinated on February 21,1965. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

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< Back Next Maya Angelou April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 On April 4th we will commemorate the birthday of a recent ancestor & role model Dr. Maya Angelou. She was a great author, poet, historian, actress, educator Civil Rights activist, screenplay writer, producer, and director. She died May 8, 2014 at the age of 87. At the time of her death, Dr. Angelou was a Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

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< Back Next Cathy Hughes April 22, 1947 - present We will celebrate the birthday of our present-day Shero Cathy Hughes who was born April 22, 1947 in Omaha, Neb. She is a Media Mogul, radio & TV personality, and business executive. The first African-American woman to head a publicly traded company, her Washington, DC-based Radio One has 53 radio stations in 16 urban markets. In January 2004, Radio One launched TV One, a national cable and satellite television network for African American adults. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Francis Welsing March 18, 1935 - Jan. 2, 2016. We commemorate the birthday of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. She was born March 18, 1935 and died on Jan. 2, 2016. She was a psychiatrist in Washington, DC who devoted more than thirty years to the study of the origin and institution of racism and white supremacy. Dr. Welsing's writings, lectures and ideas have helped many people, including scientists and scholars, understand the worldwide system of white supremacy. Dr. Welsing's scholarly works, compiled in her book; The Isis Papers are changing the course of history. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Booker Taliaferro Washington April 4, 1856 - November 14,1945 This month, we will commemorate the birthday of Booker Taliaferro Washington, an educator, author & orator. Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, he was educated at Wayland Seminary & Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University). Washington is most noted for the “Self- Improvement ” philosophy as well as building one of the greatest Black institutions in the world, Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1881, Tuskegee Institute (now a University) became famous as a model of Vocational Education. At the age of 59, Washington died November 14, 1915 in his home at Tuskegee Institute. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Lupita Nyong’o March 1, 1983 - present We will celebrate our present-day shero, Lupita Nyong’o. She was born on March 1, 1983, in Mexico City, Mexico to Kenyan parents. Lupita Nyong'o grew up in an artistic family in Kenya. She self-identifies as Kenyan-Mexican with dual citizenship. She came to the U.S. for higher studies and received a BA from Hampshire College. She graduated with an MFA degree from Yale School of Drama in 2012. Lupita Nyong'o started acting as a teen in Kenya and went on to work behind the scenes in the film The Constant Gardener. She directed and produced the albinism documentary In My Genes and starred in the TV series Shuga. Nyong'o earned acclaim for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The following year, she starred in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Off-Broadway play Eclipsed. The actress also featured prominently in the box office-shattering superhero movie Black Panther (2018) Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate

< Back Next Quincy Jones March 14, 1933 - present Our present day hero is Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.. He was born March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. Quincy Jones has succeeded in almost every segment of the media and entertainment industry. In music, he has been nominated for a record 79 Grammys and has won more than any living musician (27). He has produced the best-selling album of all–time (Michael Jackson’s Thriller) & the best-selling single of all-time (We Are The World). He has produced, composed, conducted, arranged, or performed on more than 400 albums. In film, he produced The Color Purple which was nominated for seven (7) Oscars. He is the only African–American producer to be nominated for Best Picture. Previous Next Support our Students. Donate Today! RPCS is working harder than ever to ensure that our students receive intensive academic interventions and extended learning opportunities. Donate