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Our Heroes and Sheroes Booker Taliaferro Washington April 4, 1856 - November 14,1945 Read More Maya Angelou April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 Read More Cathy Hughes April 22, 1947 - present Read More

< 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

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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 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 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

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< 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 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

< Back Next Frederick Douglass February 1818 – February 20, 1895 This month, we will commemorate the birth and lifetime work of Frederick Douglass. He was born on February 14, 1817. Although born into slavery in Maryland, he later obtained his freedom. Frederick Douglass was a noted orator, author, abolitionist, and the founder of a newspaper called "The North Star." He died in 1895. The Frederick Douglass Home, located in Anacostia (Southeast DC) became a national landmark & tourist attraction. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” 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 Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (Toni Morrison) February 18, 1931 - present We celebrate the birthday of our beloved ancestor, Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. She has become one of the most celebrated novelists of the 20th century. In 1978, Toni Morrison won the National Book Critics’ Award for “Song of Solomon” and in 1988 the Fiction Pulitzer Prize for “Beloved”. In 1996, she was awarded a medal by The National Book Foundation for her to contribution to American Letters. “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” 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