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Sunday, 12 June 2016

Chad Johnson (American football player, social media personality)

* Chad Johnson, formerly Chad Ochocinco, is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft, and played for the Bengals for ten seasons. In 2011, Johnson was traded to the New England Patriots with whom he played in Super Bowl XLVI. In 2012, Johnson played for the Miami Dolphins during preseason but was released following his arrest for domestic violence. He played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2014 to 2015.

On 25 October 2006, in honour of Hispanic Heritage Month, Johnson, whose jersey number was "85", announced that he would prefer to be called "Ocho Cinco," which is "eight five" in Spanish ("Eighty-five" would be "ochenta y cinco").

In April 2011, CNBC listed the then-Ochocinco as No. 1 on its list of "Most Influential Athletes In Social Media." He currently has 3.6 million followers on Twitter. Johnson is a six-time NFL Pro Bowler, was named to four All-Pro teams, and was voted as the number one wide receiver on the Bengals 40th Anniversary team.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Chad Javon Johnson, 9 January 1976, 05:56 (5:56 AM) EST (+5), Miami, Florida, USA (25n46, 80w11). ASC: 29 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "In 1976 when I was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital at 5:56 am," "I appreciate all the birthday wishes, it feels good to be 40" (posted on 9 January 2016). NB: Jackson Memorial Hospital is located in Miami, Florida. Wikipedia incorrectly has 1978.

Thursday, 12 May 2016

Alain Leroy Locke, 1885-1954 (American writer, philosopher, educator, patron of the arts)

* Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Alain Leroy Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance. As a result, popular listings of influential African-Americans have repeatedly included him. On 19 March 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: "We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe."

Locke was gay, and may have encouraged and supported other gay African-Americans who were part of the Harlem Renaissance. However, he was not fully public in his orientation and referred to it as his point of "vulnerable/invulnerability", taken to mean an area of risk and strength in his view.

After his retirement from Howard University in 1953, Locke moved to New York City. He suffered from heart disease, and after a six-week illness died at Mount Sinai Hospital on 9 June 1954.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 13 September 1885, about 10:30 (10:30 AM) LMT (+5:00:39), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (39n57, 75w09). ASC: About 17 Scorpio. RR: B (from auto/biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy by Christopher Buck (Kalimat, 2005), p. 12: "In the Alain Locke Papers, there is a note in Locke's handwriting that reads: 'Alain Leroy Locke--Alan registered as Arthur (white) Phila Vital Statistics owing prejudice of Quaker physician Isaac Smedley to answering question of race. [B]orn 13 So. 19th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Sunday between 10 and 11 A.M. September 13, 1885. Called Roy as a child[,] Alain from 16 on. [illegible] First born son. 2nd brother born 1889—lived 2 months. Named Arthur first selected for me.' A city hall note by the chief clerk of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Charities (1909?) confirms 1885 as the year of his birth."

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Ernest Everett Just, 1883–1941 (African-American biologist, academic, science writer)

* Ernest Everett Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. In his work within marine biology, cytology and parthenogenesis, he advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting.

Just authored two books, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Animals (1939) and The Biology of the Cell Surface (1939), and he also published at least seventy papers in the areas of cytology, fertilization and early embryonic development. He discovered what is known as the fast block to polyspermy; he further elucidated the slow block, which had been discovered by Fol in the 1870s; and he showed that the adhesive properties of the cells of the early embryo are surface phenomena exquisitely dependent on developmental stage.

In the fall of 1941, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and died shortly thereafter on 27 October 1941 in Washington D.C., aged 58.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ernest Everett Just, 14 Aug. 1883, circa 00:15 (12:15am) LMT (+5:19:43), Charleston, South Carolina, USA (32n46, 79w55). ASC: Gemini. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning (Oxford University, 1985), p. 5: "Mary Mathews Just . . . went through an easy delivery a little after midnight on Tuesday morning, 14 August." The source is given as Charleston News and Courier, 14 Aug. 1883, p. 1.

Friday, 12 February 2016

Percy Sutton, 1920–2009 (American political and business leader, civil-rights activist and lawyer)

* Prominent African-American civil-rights activist Percy Sutton became one of America's best-known lawyers during the 1950s and 1960s. He represented many controversial figures, such as Nation of Islam leader, Malcolm X. After the murder of Malcolm X in 1965, Sutton and his brother Oliver helped to cover the expenses of his widow, Betty Shabazz.

Sutton was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, the longest tenure at that position. He later became an entrepreneur whose investments included the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

In 1971, Sutton cofounded the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation which purchased New York City's WLIB-AM, the city's first African-American-owned radio station.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Percy Ellis Sutton, 25 November 1920, 00:00 (12 AM) CST (+6), San Antonio, Texas, USA (29n25, 98w29). ASC: 29 Leo. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth records. The handwritten time on the original record clearly states "AM" on 25 November but the numeral is indistinct, seems to be "12" which is consistent with a birth time of midnight between 24th and 25th, considering that the amendment filed by his mother in 1967 states his birth date as the 24th [https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2YW-4QR].