An Alger baseball team poses for a photo circa 1926. Ray Brown played as a shortstop on the high school team. Before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, pitcher Ray Brown was ...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in northern Florida, Ray Charles (played by Jamie Foxx) went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard.
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