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His self-produced recording The Slim Shady EP caught the attention of famed rapper and producer Dr. Dre, who helped Eminem produce The Slim Shady LP. The 1999 record made Eminem a radio and video superstar, with a reputation as a white rapper who wasnt afraid to be vulgar. His fame was only heightened by troubles with the law and legal battles with his mother and his wife. (He married his high school sweetheart, the former Kimberly Scott, in 1999. They were divorced in 2001, then remarried briefly in 2006.) He released the best-selling The Eminem Show in 2002 and also starred in the Curtis Hanson movie 8 Mile, a drama loosely based on Eminems early life in Detroit. In 2003 Eminem became the first rapper to win an Oscar (for the song Lose Yourself, from 8 Mile). He released a greatest hits album in 2005 titled Curtain Call, performed with D12 (My Band and How Come) and collaborated in 2006 with Akon on the top-ten hit with Smack That. 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On August 14, 1961 the word \u0026ldquo;Negro\u0026rdquo; was removed from the school\u2019s charter, thus opening enrollment to all ethnicities.\nMorris College became accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1978. Courses at the college are organized into nineteen categories, ranging from broadcast media and journalism, to education and community health, to science and mathematics. Morris also operates an Army Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps (ROTC) program. From its inception, Morris has offered training in the fields of education and ministry.\nAs Morris College is one of only a handful of colleges operated under African American auspices in South Carolina, it is representative of the distinct contribution of African American students to education and the state as a whole. 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She was born on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio to Jerome and Judith Berry and has an older sister named Heidi. Her father was an alcoholic who abused her mother and abandoned the family when Berry was quite young. She moved to Bedford with her mother and sister where she attended a predominantly white public school. As a result, she was subjected to racial discrimination from an early age. However, she was an all rounder in high school and landed the role of head cheerleader, class president and editor of the school newspaper as well as being voted the prom queen.\nAt the age of 17 she entered the Miss Teen All-American Pageant as the representative from Ohio. She won the title in 1985 as well as the position of first runner up in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant a year later. For a short while she entertained the notion of being a TV News Anchor and went to Community College in Cleveland. She abandoned that idea soon and moved to Chicago and then to New York to work as a model before landing her first TV role in the 1989 TV series \u0026ldquo;Living Dolls\u0026rdquo;. Her first major acclaimed performance was the role of a drug addict in the film \u0026ldquo;Jungle Fever\u0026rdquo; released in 1991 in which she starred with Samuel L. Jackson. Berry\u2019s commitment to the role was noteworthy \u2013 she stayed in character throughout the filming of the movie and even refused to shower for days so she could really feel the desperation and hopelessness that the character required.\nDuring this time she took on a series of other roles including the TV drama \u0026ldquo;Knot\u2019s Landing\u0026rdquo; in 1991, \u0026ldquo;The Last Boy Scout\u0026rdquo; also in 1991 which was an action thriller starring Bruce Willis, and \u0026ldquo;Boomerang\u0026rdquo; in 1992, a romantic comedy in which she starred opposite Eddie Murphy. 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