Paul R. Williams was one of the most well-known 20th Century African American architects. Early in his career, Williams designed mostly houses, but in the 1950s and 1960s he designed some of the most distinctive public buildings in Los Angeles. Williams’s best-known building is […] … Read MorePaul R. Williams (1894-1980)
[…] United States instructors. In 2015 he attended officer training school at a military academy in Paris, France. He was awarded a Master’s degree in criminal sciences from the Conservatoire National des Artes et Metiers in 2017, and in June, 2021, he published a book, […] … Read MorePaul-Henry Sandaogo Damiba (1981- )
[…] attack at the age of 40 in Memphis, Tennessee. Two years later, Koopsta Knicca died from a stroke and a brain aneurysm. Despite their group’s success they were involved in controversies including a high-profile feud with the rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. The group was […] … Read MoreThree Six Mafia (1991- )
[…] the senior bishop of the AME church for nearly 25 years, making him the longest presiding bishop in the church until his death in 1873. Although there is some uncertainty about the details of Quinn’s parentage most sources list him as having been born […] … Read MoreWilliam Paul Quinn (1788-1873)
Paul B. Cornely is remembered today as a public health pioneer and civil rights leader whose activism contributed to the desegregation of national healthcare. Dr. Cornely was born on March 9, 1906. on the island of Guadeloupe in the West Indies and grew up […] … Read MorePaul B. Cornely (1906-2002)
[…] among other subjects under the auspices of French teachers. He then attended various schools in Paris earning several diplomas and a law degree at the University of Paris. On January 1, 1960, Cameroon became an independent nation. Biya was a loyal follower of the […] … Read MorePaul Biya (1933- )
[…] Charles Diggs Jr. and persuaded to apply to the U.S. Naval Academy. Joseph Reason graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in naval science and was commissioned a Navy Ensign in 1965. Reason’s first assignment was as operations officer on the destroyer […] … Read MoreJoseph Paul Reason (1941- )
[…] she enrolled in Hunter College with plans of becoming a social worker. After a one-year absence from college due to illness, she decided, with the influence of some of her friends, to become an English Literature major instead. She enrolled in Brooklyn College and […] … Read MorePaule Marshall (1929-2019)
[…] Eastman School of Music on a scholarship in 1952. There he met his wife Cornelia, a piano and organ major. His BA degree in 1956 was followed a year later by an MA degree. He then received a Fulbright Fellowship to study operatic and […] … Read MorePaul Freeman (1936- )
Paul Goodnight is a talented painter and ceramist known for his works on hit television series. Born in Chicago on December 31, 1946, Goodnight’s father abandoned him and his mother, a social worker, at a very early age. They moved to New London, Connecticut […] … Read MorePaul Goodnight (1946- )
