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Bahamian People
Bahamians are people originating or having roots from Bahamas, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas. One can also become a Bahamian by acquiring citizenship. History Culture Olympic Games World Championships in Athletics List * Sidney Poitier, first black man to win an Oscar, first black Bahamian actor to win Best Actor, first black Bahamian actor to be nominated for best actor. * Shaunae Miller-Uibo, sprinter, 2016 Olympic 400m champion, and world record holder in 200m straight * Buddy Hield, basketball player * Klay Thompson, basketball player * Rick Fox, three-time NBA champion, owner of Echo Fox * Lynden Oscar Pindling, first Prime Minister of the Bahamas. * Joseph Robert Love, important pan-African leader of the 19th and 20th century who influenced Marcus Garvey * Allan Glaisyer Minns, first black British mayor * Bert Williams, first black lead actor on Broadway * Deandre Ayton, was ranked number-one high-school basketball player in the USA by scout in 2015 * Mychal Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of The Bahamas
The national flag, national flag of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas consists of a black triangle situated at the hoist with three horizontal bands: aquamarine, gold and aquamarine. Adopted in 1973 to replace the British Blue Ensign defacement (flag), defaced with the emblem of the History of the Bahamas#Reclaiming Bahamas for the Crown, Crown Colony of the Bahama Islands, it has been the flag of the Bahamas since the country gained independence that year. The design of the present flag incorporated the elements of various submissions made in a national contest for a new flag prior to independence. History The Bahamas became a crown colony of the United Kingdom within British Empire, its colonial empire in 1717. Under colonial rule, the Bahama Islands used the British Blue Ensign and Defacement (flag), defaced it with the emblem of the territory. This was inspired by the ousting of the pirates, and consisted of a scene depicting a British ship chasing two pirate ships out at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Fox
Ulrich Alexander Fox (born July 24, 1969) is a Bahamian-Canadian actor and former basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association for the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, and played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He was the owner of the eSports franchise Echo Fox until his departure from the franchise in October 2019. His acting credits include roles in '' Oz'', '' He Got Game'', '' One Tree Hill'', ''Ugly Betty'', '' The Game'', ''The Big Bang Theory'', '' Meet the Browns'', '' Melrose Place'', '' Mr. Box Office'', '' Sin City Saints'', '' Krystal'', '' Sharknado'', '' Greenleaf'', '' Morning Show Mysteries,'' '' All Rise'' and '' Holes''. Early life Ulrich Alexander Fox was born on July 24, 1969, in Toronto, Canada, the son of Dianne Gerace, who was an Olympic high jumper and women's pentathlete, and Ulrich Fox. His father is Bahamian and his mother is Canadian of Italian and Scottish descent. Fox's family moved to his father's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demographics Of The Bahamas
This is a demography of the population of the Bahamas including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Ninety percent of the Bahamian population identifies as being primarily of African ancestry. About two-thirds of the population lives on New Providence Island (the location of Nassau), and about half of the remaining one-third lives on Grand Bahama (the location of Freeport). The islands were sparsely settled and a haven for pirates until the late 18th century, when thousands of British Loyalists were given compensatory land grants following the American Revolution. Many new settlers were from the Southern United States and brought slaves with them to cultivate plantations. At the turn of the 20th century, the total population was 53,000. School attendance is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16. There are 158 public schools and 52 private schools in the Bahamas c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimbo Slice
Kevin Ferguson (February 8, 1974 – June 6, 2016), better known as Kimbo Slice, was a Bahamian-American mixed martial artist, professional boxer, and actor. Originally a bare-knuckle boxer, he became noted for his role in mutual combat street fight videos in the 2000s which were spread online, leading ''Rolling Stone'' to call him "The King of the Web Brawlers". Turning to mixed martial arts in 2005, Slice left the underground fighting scene and signed a professional contract with EliteXC after making his MMA debut with Cage Fury Fighting Championships in 2007, scoring a win over MMA pioneer and former UFC heavyweight contender Tank Abbott in 2008. In 2009, he competed in '' The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights'', where he lost in his first fight to eventual series winner Roy Nelson. In his UFC debut, Slice defeated Houston Alexander in ''The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights'' finale. After becoming a free agent via his dismissal from the UFC, Slice ventured into the profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Edwards
Yves Edwards (born September 30, 1976) is a Bahamian retired mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist, who is best known for competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC's Lightweight (MMA), Lightweight division, fighting 21 times in the promotion. A professional competitor since 1997, he also competed for PRIDE Fighting Championships, PRIDE, the World Extreme Cagefighting, WEC, Strikeforce (mixed martial arts), Strikeforce, Bellator MMA, Bellator, EliteXC, King of the Cage, BodogFIGHT, the Maximum Fighting Championship, MFC, and HDNet Fights. For a period of time (2004), Edwards was ranked as the #1 Lightweight in the world. Background Edwards was born on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas and moved to Texas when he was 14 years old. Edwards began training in traditional Karate in his youth, moving on to Kung Fu and Ninjutsu before eventually taking up mixed martial arts. This also led him to Muay Thai in order to improve his stand-up. Like many aspiring martial a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Palacious
Angela Palacious (born 1953 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Bahamian minister of religion and author. She was the first woman deacon and the first woman priest of the Anglican Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Early life and education Palacious obtained a BA in English from Durham University, England in 1975 and an MA in English from Concordia University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1978. Palacious met her husband, James Palacious, while they were both students at Princeton University in 1981. In 1984, she obtained her Master of Divinity and the following year, she obtained a Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. Ordination Palacious returned to the Bahamas and became an elementary school teacher. In 1992, the Anglican diocese agreed to allow women's ordination and the following year, Palacious applied to become a deacon. She went to New York to further her training and, in 1994, she earned a Certificate in Anglican S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mychal Thompson
Mychal George Thompson (born January 30, 1955) is a Bahamian sports commentator and former professional basketball player. The top overall pick in the 1978 NBA draft, Thompson played the center position for the University of Minnesota and center and power forward for the National Basketball Association's Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Lakers. Thompson won two NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s. He is the father of basketball players Klay Thompson and Mychel Thompson, and baseball player Trayce Thompson. Early life Thompson was born to a Catholic family in Nassau, Bahamas, where he grew up playing pickup basketball on the local courts and fostered his love for the game. He eventually moved to the United States as a teenager in order to compete at a higher level. Settling in Miami, Florida, Thompson attended Miami Jackson Senior High School. In his senior year in 1974, as part of a basketball starting lineup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deandre Ayton
Deandre Edoneille Ayton Sr. ( ; born July 23, 1998) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A consensus five-star prospect in the Class of 2017 and a McDonald's All-American, he played one season of college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats, where he was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year. Ayton was selected with the first overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns and was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2019. In 2021, he helped lead the Suns to their first NBA Finals appearance since 1993. Early life Ayton's father is Nigerian and his mother is of Jamaican and Bahamian heritage. He began playing basketball in the fourth grade. By age 12, he was . Ayton moved from The Bahamas to San Diego, California, to play high school basketball. High school career Ayton attended Balboa School in California and started on the varsity basketball team for two years. As a sophomore in 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Williams
Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 – March 4, 1922) was a Bahamian-born American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. While some sources have credited him as being the first Black man to have a leading role in a film with '' Darktown Jubilee'' in 1914, other sources have credited actor Sam Lucas with this same distinction for a different 1914 film, the World Film Company's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''. '' Ebony'' stated that "''Darktown Follies'' was the first attempt of an independent film company to star a black actor in a movie", and credited the work as beginning a period in independent American cinema that explored "black themes" within works made for African-American audiences by independent producers. Williams was by far the best-selling Black recording artist before 1920. In 1918, the '' New York Dramatic Mirror'' called Williams "one of the great comedians of the world." W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Glaisyer Minns
Allan Glaisyer Minns (1858 – 16 September 1930) was a medical doctor, and the first mixed race man to become a mayor in Britain. Early life Born in the island of Inagua in the Bahamas, Minns was one of the nine children and the youngest son of John Minns (1811–1863) and Ophelia ( Bunch) Minns (1817–1902). His grandfather, also called John Minns, had emigrated about 1801 from England to the Bahamas, where he married Rosette, a former African slave. Education and medical career Minns was educated at Nassau Grammar School and Guy's Hospital in London. He was registered with the British Medical Association on 14 February 1884; his qualifications were MRCS (1881), and LRCP (1884). He was based in Thetford from 1885 until 1923, when he moved to Dorking. His eldest brother, Pembroke Minns (1840–1912), was already in medical practice in Thetford when he moved there. Political career In 1903, Minns was elected to the town council of Thetford, Norfolk, and the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) (commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a Black nationalism, black nationalist and Pan-Africanism, Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism. Garvey was born into a moderately prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann's Bay and was apprenticed into the print trade as a teenager. Working in Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, he became involved in trade unionism. He later lived briefly in Costa Rica, Panama, and England. On returning to Jamaica, he founded the UNIA in 1914. In 1916, he moved to the United States and established a UNIA branch in New York City's Harlem district. Emphasising unity between Demographics of Africa, Africans and the African diaspora, he campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
