Angela Davis

by | Apr 7, 2021 | January 26, Teacher

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About Angela Davis

African-American activist, author, and professor who was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and harbored Communist sympathies.

Early life

Her mother was a leading organizer of the Southern Negro Congress, an organization heavily influenced by the Communist Party.

Trivia

She founded Critical Resistance, a prison reform organization established with the goal of abolishing the prison-industrial complex.

Family of Angela Davis

Her father operated a service station in Birmingham, Alabama, and her mother was a school teacher. She was married to Hilton Braithwaite from 1980 until 1983.

Close associates of Angela Davis

Her involvement with the Communist Party led President Ronald Reagan to seek to ban her from teaching at California universities.

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John Carey

by | Apr 7, 2021 | April 5, Teacher

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About John Carey

Known for his works of literary criticism, this University of Oxford English literature professor wrote for London’s Sunday Times and contributed to such arts and literature-themed television programs as The Review Show and Saturday Review.

Early life

Early in his career, he edited anthologies of poems by John Milton and Andrew Marvell.

Trivia

He served as chairman of the Man Booker Prize committee. His book-length publications include What Good Are the Arts? and The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens’ Imagination.

Family of John Carey

A native of London, England, he attended St. John’s College, Oxford. He and his wife Gill became parents to sons named Thomas and Leo.

Close associates of John Carey

In the early 1990s, he published a work titled The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 that harshly criticized Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, and other modernist writers.

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Yip Man

by | Apr 7, 2021 | October 1, Teacher

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About Yip Man

Wing Chun grandmaster whose notable students included Bruce Lee and Lok Yiu. He is also known as Yip Kai-man.

Early life

He became a policeman at age twenty-four.

Trivia

He established the Ving Tsun Athletic Association.

Family of Yip Man

He was one of four children born to Yip Oi-dor and Ng Shui. He was married to Cheung Wing-sing and had two sons named Ip Chun and Ip Ching.

Close associates of Yip Man

He mentored William Cheung, Moy Yat, and Bruce Lee.

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Chris Ulmer

by | Apr 6, 2021 | March 5, Teacher

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About Chris Ulmer

Special education teacher who is famous as the founder and CEO of the non-profit Special Books by Special Kids. He founded the organization in 2016, and has since earned more than 2.5 million Facebook followers and 2.7 million YouTube subscribers to his accounts. 

Early life

He earned his B.A. in communications from Penn State University. He originally began Special Books by Special Kids as a vlog documenting the stories of his first students in his classroom. 

Trivia

He served as the 2016 keynote speaker for the National Autism Conference in New Orleans. He has earned more than 650,000 followers to his specialbooksbyspecialkids Instagram account. 

Family of Chris Ulmer

He has run his Special Books by Special Kids organization alongside his partner Alyssa. 

Close associates of Chris Ulmer

He featured Dubsmash star Kierra Pointer on his YouTube channel in January 2021.

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Andrew Ezergailis

by | Apr 5, 2021 | December 10, Teacher

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About Andrew Ezergailis

Latvian professor of history who taught at Ithaca College and specializes in research on the history of Latvia.

Early life

He grew up in Latvia and later came to the United States.

Trivia

He is particularly knowledgeable about the 1917 Revolution and the Holocaust in Latvia.

Family of Andrew Ezergailis

He married and had two children.

Close associates of Andrew Ezergailis

He taught at Ithaca College, where Jeremy Jordan studied.

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Hanna Holborn Gray

by | Apr 5, 2021 | October 25, Teacher

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About Hanna Holborn Gray

German teacher who is a historian of Renaissance and Reformation politics and was once the president of history emeritus at the University of Chicago.

Early life

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and went to Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar.

Trivia

She served as chairman of the board of Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2010.

Family of Hanna Holborn Gray

She married Charles Montgomery Gray whom she met while attending Harvard University in 1954.

Close associates of Hanna Holborn Gray

Like her, scientist Yuan Lee has also worked as a professor at the University of Chicago.

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