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He served as deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office (1989\u20131994) with the responsibility of prosecuting gang-related homicides and other criminal activity in the gang-infested city of Compton. Also, just three years after taking this role, he found himself in the middle of prosecuting cases of violence and crime in Los Angeles County following the 1992 acquittal of four police officers for the beating of Rodney King. \nProspers would use these experiences in his next post, as assistant U.S. attorney for Central District of California (1994\u20131996) where he continued his work on violent crime issues, focusing then on investigating and prosecuting major international drug cartels. \nUpon hearing about the acts of genocide in Rwanda where an estimated eight hundred thousand people were slaughtered over a one-hundred-day period, Prosper wanted help bring about justice for the victims. He left Los Angeles first to become a legal advisor to the U.S. government\u2019s mission in Rwanda (1995), then as one of two trial attorneys, and later as a war crimes prosecutor for the United Nations (UN) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1996\u20131998). This was the tribunal established by the UN to bring the perpetrators the genocide to justice. 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She has never limited herself to any one musical genre, and her voice can widely range from contralto to high soprano.\nNorman was born on September 15, 1945 in Augusta, Georgia, the child of Silas Norman, an insurance broker, and Janie Norman, a schoolteacher. She began singing in church choirs as a young child, and was taking piano lessons by age eight. Her singing enabled her to attend Howard University on a full scholarship, where she studied with voice teacher Carolyn Grant, and she graduated in 1967. Winning first prize at an international music competition in Germany in 1968 propelled her into international recognition, and by 1972 she had performed her triumphal debut in the title role of Verdi\u2019s Aida at the legendary La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy.\nDuring her lengthy career, Norman has performed throughout the world, including Russia and South America as well as many European countries. She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1983. Although a Democrat, she accepted the invitation to sing at the inauguration of President Reagan in 1985, singing the folk song \u0026ldquo;Simple Gifts.\u0026rdquo;\u00A0 She was chosen to sing at the \u0026ldquo;Tribute of Light\u0026rdquo; memorial ceremony in New York City in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.\nNorman has received numerous honorary doctorates, and was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor in 1997. 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The single \u0026ldquo;What\u2019s Your Fantasy\u0026rdquo; became a hit and attracted several labels to sign him. Ludacris finally chose Def Jam Records and released a remixed version of his first album in 2000, featuring the single \u0026ldquo;Phat Rabbit\u0026rdquo; that he had earlier collaborated with Timbaland on. The album was renamed \u0026ldquo;Back For The First Time\u0026rdquo; and it became a hit on both radio and television, reaching #4 on the U.S. Billboard 200. The success single from this album was \u0026ldquo;Southern Hospitality\u0026rdquo; and was popularly aired on MTV and MTV2.\nLudacris\u2019s third album, titled \u0026ldquo;Word of Mouf\u0026rdquo; was released in 2001. The lead single from this album was produced by Timbaland \u00A0and titled \u0026ldquo;Rollout (My Business)\u0026rdquo;. It was nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award. 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In 1995, Ajala emigrated to the United States to make a better life for himself and his family. \nWhen he first arrived in the U.S Ajala bounced between poorly paid jobs but eventually obtained a steady position as a security guard or Access Control Officer at the New York World Trade Center towers at the Concourse (ground floor) level.\u00A0 In this position, Ajala rode elevators and walked floors of the 110-story tower at Two World Trade Center, helping secure the building and attending to small emergencies.\nAjala worked in this position while preparing to take the New York State Bar Exam with plans to reunite his family in the U.S. once he had passed the exam. Friends described him as working from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. as a security guard and then coming home to study for another 6 to 8 hours every day. \nDespite his efforts, Ajala never achieved his goals of becoming a lawyer in the United States and bringing his family to the U.S. Nor do we know if he would have ever been able to achieve these goals since, having little money, he was unable to attend law school in the U.S., and instead took more affordable specialized prep courses for the New York Bar Exam. 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While at UNC she participated in anti-apartheid protests.\u00A0 She entered Harvard Law School in 1988 where her friendship with future President Barack Obama began when both were filling out forms in the student financial aid line.\u00A0\u00A0 Butts continued her activism at Harvard where she joined in protests regarding hiring practices for faculty of color.\u00A0 She received a JD from Harvard in 1991. \u00A0\nThe first black woman to function as Deputy White House Counsel gradually rose to prominence\u00A0 Her first job was as a counselor at the YMCA in Durham, North Carolina, and after graduating from UNC she worked for a year as a researcher with the African News Service in Durham.\u00A0 For six years she was a registered lobbyist with the Center for American Progress (CAP), rising to Senior Vice President.\u00A0\u00A0\nButts served as an election observer in the 2000 Zimbabwean parliamentary elections and was a counsel to Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania.\u00A0 Butts then performed litigation and policy work as assistant counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where she worked on civil rights policy and litigated voting rights and school desegregation cases.\u00A0 She spent seven years working as a senior advisor to U.S. Congressman and Democratic Majority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri.\u00A0 Working with Gephardt","MaxDetailCharacters":0,"ImageUrl":"https://cdn.blackfacts.net/uploads/blackfacts/facts/www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/bytts_cassandra.jpg","ImageHeight":376,"ImageWidth":250,"ImageOrientation":"portrait","HasImage":true,"CssClass":"","Layout":"","Rowspan":1,"Colspan":1,"Likes":0,"Shares":0,"ContentSourceId":"de2ecbf0-5aa4-45ce-bbf9-9a6ac45f6ac8","SourceName":"Black Past","ContentSourceRootUrl":"https://www.blackpast.org/","IsSponsored":false,"HasSmallSponsorLogo":false,"EffectiveDate":"2001-09-11T00:00:00","HasEffectiveDate":true,"Year":2001,"Month":9,"Day":11,"LastUpdatedDate":"2023-11-25T05:14:39.027","LastUpdatedBy":"ExtractionBotHub","IsEditable":false,"InsertAd":false,"Id":8305,"FactUId":"af9f7c99-6dbc-4fbf-8737-96a4d9254e39","Slug":"butts-cassandra-quin-1965","FactType":"Event","Title":"Butts, Cassandra Quin (1965--  )","LocalFactUrl":"/fact/butts-cassandra-quin-1965","ResultCount":-1,"SearchType":"Today"},{"FadeSummary":false,"SummaryText":"Segregationist redirects here. For the short story by Isaac Asimov, see Segregationist (short story).\nAIDS stigma \nAdultism \nAnti-albinism \nAnti-autism \nAnti-homelessness \nAnti-intellectualism \nAnti-intersex \nAnti-left handedness \nAnti-Masonry \nAudism \nBinarism \nBiphobia \nCronyism \nElitism \nEphebiphobia \nFatism \nGenderism \nGerontophobia \nHeteronormativity \nHeterosexism \nHomophobia \nLeprosy stigma \nLesbophobia \nMentalism \nMisandry \nMisogyny \nNepotism \nPedophobia \nPregnancy \nReverse \nSectarianism \nShadism \nTransmisogyny \nTransphobia \nXenophobia \nRacial segregation is the separation of humans into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, going to the movies, riding on a bus, or in the rental or purchase of a home[1] or of hotel rooms. Segregation is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as the act by which a (natural or legal) person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination. As a result, the voluntary act of separating oneself from other people on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds does not constitute segregation.[2] According to the UN Forum on Minority Issues, The creation and development of classes and schools providing education in minority languages should not be considered impermissible segregation, if the assignment to such classes and schools is of a voluntary nature.[3] \nRacial segregation is generally outlawed, but may exist de facto through social norms, even when there is no strong individual preference for it, as suggested by Thomas Schellings models of segregation and subsequent work.[4] Segregation may be maintained by means ranging from discrimination in hiring and in the rental and sale of housing to certain races to vigilante violence (such as lynchings). 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An accomplished performer with a wide repertoire, her work ranged from dramatic leading roles to controversial comedic performances.\nGoldberg spent her early years in a Manhattan housing project. She began performing at age eight with a children\u2019s theatre group and later, as a young adult, went on to perform in the choruses of Broadway shows. She moved to California in 1974 and soon became active in the theatre community there, as well as establishing a presence as a stand-up comedian. Eventually she developed The Spook Show, a one-woman stage show noted for its humour, satire, and drama, which she performed throughout the United States and Europe. That performance became the basis for the critically acclaimed Broadway show Whoopi Goldberg, which debuted in 1984, and in 1985 Goldberg won a Grammy Award for the show\u2019s recording. Soon afterward she made her Hollywood debut in  The Color Purple (1985), for which she garnered an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award.\nGoldberg went on to perform in less-successful films before appearing in  Ghost (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress. Goldberg followed up with numerous performances in film and television, including hosting her own talk show for a brief stint, serving as host of the Academy Awards show on several occasions, and starring in the television show Whoopi (2003\u201304). In 2007 she became a cohost on the daytime television talk show  The View.\nIn addition, Goldberg began producing works for television and stage in the late 1990s, and in 2002 she won a Tony Award for producing the Broadway show Thoroughly Modern Millie. Although her planned Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange\u2019s 1975 ensemble theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf was","MaxDetailCharacters":0,"ImageUrl":"https://cdn.blackfacts.net/uploads/blackfacts/facts/media1.britannica.com/eb-media/30/157030-004-b53416d2.jpg","ImageHeight":450,"ImageWidth":293,"ImageOrientation":"portrait","HasImage":true,"CssClass":"","Layout":"","Rowspan":1,"Colspan":1,"Likes":0,"Shares":0,"ContentSourceId":"80689a34-9b7c-4d3a-91f8-56cabb44f365","SourceName":"Brittanica","ContentSourceRootUrl":"https://www.britannica.com/search?query=black%20history","SponsorId":"d9e17e24-cd53-4d57-be36-9d2660786c68","IsSponsored":true,"SponsorName":"Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter","SmallSponsorLogoUrl":"24x24/shpe-logo.jpg","SponsorUrl":"http://shpeboston.org/","HasSmallSponsorLogo":true,"EffectiveDate":"2001-09-11T00:00:00","HasEffectiveDate":true,"Year":2001,"Month":9,"Day":11,"LastUpdatedDate":"2023-11-25T05:14:39.027","LastUpdatedBy":"ExtractionBotHub","IsEditable":false,"InsertAd":false,"Id":10533,"FactUId":"62548b36-0d5e-4cf3-9657-75a99b6638fa","Slug":"whoopi-goldberg","FactType":"Event","Title":"Whoopi Goldberg","LocalFactUrl":"/fact/whoopi-goldberg","ResultCount":-1,"SearchType":"Today"},{"FadeSummary":false,"SummaryText":"Johnson was born on September 11, 1957 in New York, New York.","MaxDetailCharacters":0,"ImageUrl":"https://cdn.blackfacts.net/uploads/blackfacts/facts/www.blackpast.org/files/jeh_johnson.jpg","ImageHeight":300,"ImageWidth":400,"ImageOrientation":"landscape","HasImage":true,"CssClass":"","Layout":"","Rowspan":1,"Colspan":1,"Likes":0,"Shares":0,"ContentSourceId":"de2ecbf0-5aa4-45ce-bbf9-9a6ac45f6ac8","SourceName":"Black Past","ContentSourceRootUrl":"https://www.blackpast.org/","IsSponsored":false,"HasSmallSponsorLogo":false,"EffectiveDate":"1957-09-11T00:00:00","HasEffectiveDate":true,"Year":1957,"Month":9,"Day":11,"LastUpdatedDate":"2023-11-25T05:14:39.027","IsEditable":false,"InsertAd":false,"Id":18281,"FactUId":"eb9a2cfb-48e4-40df-80de-ce129a503ab8","Slug":"johnson-jeh-1957---birthday","FactType":"Event","Title":"Johnson, Jeh (1957 -   ) - Birthday","LocalFactUrl":"/fact/johnson-jeh-1957---birthday","ResultCount":-1,"SearchType":"Today"},{"FadeSummary":false,"SummaryText":"Tahar Ben Jelloun ,  (born December 1, 1944, F\u00E8s, Morocco), Moroccan-French novelist, poet, and essayist who wrote expressively about Moroccan culture, the immigrant experience, human rights, and sexual identity.\nWhile studying philosophy at Mu\u1E25ammad V University in Rabat, Ben Jelloun began to write poems for the politically charged journal Souffl\u00E9s. 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