Tommy Raps.

I miss when my family was a FAMILY
I think I’m finally ready to talk about it.
The album will be called RODNEY.

Rest in Peace Uncle Bull - they say I look move smell act smile just like you. I wish we coulda been better friends.

Sometimes,
I think God
does make
mistakes—

Happy Belated birthday! Levar Burton is an award-winning actor, director, producer, author, and education advocate. He’s best known for his roles as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots. He also hosted and produced the PBS educational show Reading Rainbow for 23 years. In 2022, NATAS, the governing body of the daytime Emmys, recognized Burton with the first Children’s & Family Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tommy Raps Black History Month, Day 06 - Claressa Shields

Claressa Maria Shields is a professional boxer and mixed martial artist from Flint, Michigan who has held multiple world championships across five weight classes. She is the first boxer in history, male or female, to become the undisputed champion in three different weight classes during the four-belt era. Shields has helped change women's boxing.

*As of February 2025, she is a three-division champion.

Daniel Day (born August 8, 1944), known as Dapper Dan, is an American fashion designer and haberdasher from Harlem, New York. His store, Dapper Dan’s Boutique, operated from 1982 to 1992 and is most associated with introducing high fashion to hip hop culture; its clientele includes Mike Tyson, Eric B. & Rakim, Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J, and Jay-Z. In 2017, he launched a fashion line with Gucci, with whom he opened a second store and atelier, Dapper Dan’s of Harlem, in 2018.

Henrietta Lacks, born August 1, 1920, was a black woman with an unusually aggressive cervical cancer who passed away on October 4th, 1951. Lacks’ cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. (An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.)