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In 2009, an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated president. Born and raised on a cotton plantation in Macon, Georgia, to sharecroppers, in 1926, when he was seven, the owner rapes his mother Hattie; his father Earl confronts him and is killed.
Eugene Charles Allen (July 14, 1919 – March 31, 2010) [2] was an American waiter and butler who worked for the US government at the White House for 34 years until he retired as the head butler in 1986.
Banner played Earl Gaines, Cecil Gaines' father, in the 2013 film The Butler. Banner plays Jay, a criminal who is interrogated, in the 2014 film Ride Along . David Banner was featured on a remix of Mexican American rapper Kap G 's single "La Policia", which stirred hype throughout the media and the internet.
The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco into a world-renowned haven for people suffering from poverty and homelessness and living on the margins, has died.
Invincible Season 2 confirms that Donald Ferguson is still alive, despite seemingly dying at the hands of Omni-Man in Season 1. Here's how Donald is still alive. ... But because Cecil Stedman and ...
“I feel blessed to still be here, and that I got to go through any and all of it,” Rossington said. “We let life pick us up and shake us and squeeze us, and we tasted it, so I’m happy. I ...
Franklin was born Clarence LaVaughn Walker in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States, [2] to sharecroppers Willie and Rachel (née Pittman) Walker (1897-1988). [3] C. L. Franklin would recall that the only thing his father did for him was to teach him to salute when he returned from service in World War I in 1919.
The following year, Cecil Womack, now married to Linda Cooke, Sam Cooke's daughter and Bobby's former stepdaughter, began finding success on his own with Linda as the duo Womack & Womack, releasing the album, Love Wars, which boosted the hit single, "Baby I'm Scared of You", which Cecil and Linda wrote.