Six facts you probably didn’t know about music mogul, Jay Z

Novieku Babatunde Adeola December 04, 2019

He was born on the same day Fred Hampton was killed

Born on this day in 1969, it coincides with the very day American activist, revolutionary, socialist and deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton was killed.

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