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Black Actors

Rosalind Cash, American singer & actress. Her best known film role is as Charlton Heston's character's love interest Lisa, in the science fiction cult classic, The Omega Man. To soap opera audiences, she is best remembered as Mary Mae Ward on General Hospital. Her films included Klute, The New Centurions, Uptown Saturday Night, Wrong Is Right, & Tales from the Hood. She also appeared in The Golden Girls, A Different World, & Go Tell It on the Mountain. She died of cancer at age 56. R.I.P.

Stars Who Served

Mr. T Before achieving fame, this A-Team star served in the U.S. Army with the Military Police Corps.

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By Any Means Necessary

Black Knowledge

We Are The World

Vivien Thomas, African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. Thomas was also offered the position of Chief of Surgery at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins in 1941.

Lou Rawls-Army Paratroopers in Airborne Army Division 1956-58 (Singer/Entertainer)

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Celebrities Then And Now

Black Entertainment

I Love Cinema

Sidney Poitier(born February 20, 1927), is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. He join the United States Army in 1945, after which he worked as a dishwasher until a successful audition landed him a spot with the American Negro Theatre. In April 1997, Poitier was appointed Ambassador of the Bahamas to Japan, a position he currently holds. He is also the Ambassador of the Bahamas to UNESCO.

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Jet Magazine Covers #1050-1099

Minnie Ripperton, songwriter, singer with her husband on the cover of Jet Magazine - October 1976. Minnie Ripperton was a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

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Nipsey Russell - Wikipedia

Nipsey Russell (September 15, 1918 - October 2, 2005) served as a medic in the…

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African American Actors

4th Infantry Division

Demond Wilson 1966 - 1968, serving with the 4th Infantry Division, during the Vietnam War, also receiving wounds.

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Sherman Hemsley-Air Force-1954-58 (Actor)

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Harry Belafonte-Navy-WW2 (Singer/Actor)

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Start A Fire

Harry Belafonte: At the young age of 19, after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, veteran Harry Belafonte attended The New School for Social Research in New York City, using his GI Bill benefits.

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African Americans

Saint Louis University

Usa Military

Washington University

Acting Career

November 30

Robert Guillaume (born Robert Peter Williams; November 30, 1927) is an American stage and television actor. Guillaume studied at Saint Louis University and Washington University and served in the United States Army before pursuing an acting career.

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Ossie Davis-Army-WW2-Surgical tech in military hospital in Liberia.

Robert Henry Lawrence 1st AA Astronaut