Related to any celebrities? If so, who and how?

I dont know if this is a celeberty, but shit it's a history lesson

but this is my great great grandfather

Scipio Africanus Jones (1863-1943) was an African-American attorney, judge, and Republican politician from the State of Arkansas. He was most famous for successfully guiding the appeals of the 12 men condemned to death after the Elaine Race Riots.

Scipio Africanus Jones was born a slave in approximately 1863 near Tulip in Dallas County, Arkansas.

Jones attended black schools near his hometown and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1880s and took preparatory courses at Philander Smith College. Jones went on to earn a bachelor's degree from Shorter College in 1887. Jones attempted to register at the University of Arkansas in 1887 to pursue his law degree but was not admitted.

Jones worked as a school teacher and read law in the offices of three white attorneys until he was accepted into the Arkansas bar in 1889. Jones became a prominent black Republican in Arkansas and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention several times. Jones was offered the position of Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia but declined the offer. Jones was also a prominent figure with the Mosaic Templars which was, at the time, one of the largest African-American fraternal organization and which which had its national headquarters in Little Rock.

In 1915 and 1924 Jones was appointed as a special judge to preside over cases when the regular judge had been incapacitated.

Jones is most famous for his skillfull defense of the 12 black sharecroppers sentenced to death for participation in the Elaine Race Riot in 1919. The 12 men had been sentenced to death by an all white jury in a trial that is said to have lasted approximately 20 minutes. Jones was hired after the men had already been convicted.

African-American attorneys were not generally permitted to argue cases and were instead assigned to assist white attorneys. Jones was assigned to assist George W. Murphy with the defense and did much of the research on the appeal. When Murphy died unexpectedly, Jones was elevated to co-counsel and took the lead in guiding the appeals process and successfully saw the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. During the trials Jones is said to have shifted his location each night to avoid those who wanted the 12 defendants convicted at any cost.

Jones was prohibited from arguing the case directly before the court but it was his efforts that led to a landmark Supreme Court (Dempsey v. Moore) ruling that, for the first time, permitted collateral attack, through habeas corpus, on a state appellate court decision.

New trials were granted to the 12 defendants as the court stated that they had not received due process in the original trials.

Charges were dismissed against six of the defendants and the remaining six were retried and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Jones successfully lobbied for a pardon from the Governor of Arkansas and the men were released in 1925.

Jones remained active in Republican politics and continued to press cases dealing with racial discrimination in Arkansas until his death. During World War I Jones led the Liberty Bond recruitment drive amongst the African-American community in Arkansas and raised $243,000 in the effort. Jones also served as the head of the Negro State Suffrage League and fought for voting rights for black citizens throughout his life. Jones also served as director of the United Charities drive which was a predecessor of the United Way.

Jones last case was in 1942 when he and other black lawyers sued the Little Rock School District to obtain equal pay for a black school teacher. Though Jones died before the completion of the case it proved to be successful.

Scipio Jones died in Little Rock, Arkansas on 2 March 1943.

Thelonious Monk was my great uncle. He was my father's uncle.



For those who may not know, he was a jazz pianist.

yeah God

Yeah kinda.....My Great-Aunt used to be married to Don Cornelius' dad....Don, my mom and my aunt used to hang tuff.....they used to help him prepare papers, envelopes, applications and pick the schools that would attend Soooouuuuul Train in the 70's!

I have a couple of boxing ties in my family:

Sugar Ray Robinson's late wife Millie was my great aunt. She was married to my great uncle Herman Bruce before she hooked up with Ray.

My grandfather Bill Slayton was a boxing trainer for Ken Norton, Michael Dokes, Dub Huntley, Prince Muhammad, Howard Smith, Tex Cobb, Lamon Brewster and a handful of others above and below the radar. He was influenced by and friends with Sugar Ray Robinson and Archie Moore, and when he was in the army in the early 1940's he got to spar in an exhibition match against Joe Louis. He helped train Chris Penn, Mickey Rourke, Denzel Washington and a few others for their film roles as boxers, and one of his proteges trained Omar Epps for his role in Against The Ropes. He taught me how to knuckle up when I was 7, so you already know how my hands are...WATCH OUT SUCKA!
He opened his own boxing gym in 1977 in Watts on 108th and Broadway, and my family has been operating it since his passing last year.

yep. Shawn Moltke aka MC Shan is my second cousin.

OK,

I have a few family members in the game.

Erica and Tina Campbell are my second cousins from Cali. (INGLEWOOD HOLLA)

Rocafella Recording artist DENIM. <> BROOKLYN

and actor Aaron Meeks (Ahmed from Soul Food the series) CALI REPPING.

Ok yall I got one for you according to my grandmother in Virginia I am a descendent of Fredrick Douglas through the Bailey Families of Virginia.

Yeah, my second cousin is married to Tupac's aunt. I hung out with Pac as a youngster in the Bronx, before his family moved to Baltimore. I also visited him a few times at his home in Atlanta. Like Pac, many of my other relatives were Black panthers.

Okay I feel left out.

My first cousin was married to Amil (The Roc)'s cousin's sister in law. Hahahahaha

Ok, here's my input. Patryce "Chocolate" Banks formally of Graham Central Station is my second cousin. Her father and my grandmother were sister and brother. My dad is named after her dad.


Djuana "Sweet LD" Johnican from Oaktown 357 is my cousin as well. Her grandmother and my grandmother were sisters. Same sibling set up to Patryce's father. They were all sisters and brothers.

I also have a cousin that played guitar for El Debarge which is how I got to know that family.

I have another cousin that went to the prom with Sly Stone.

Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick is my first cousin. Our fathers were brothers. She's an Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School had work featured on NBC's Dateline, syndicated throughout the world on MSNBC and ABC, and appeared on WGBH in the winter of 2000 and in a Ken Burns documentary the fall of 2000.

She published Chained Voices: Growing Up a Slave in the Nineteenth Century (forthcoming) "Miscegenation, Twain and the Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" (forthcoming) "The Six-Letter Word" (forthcoming) The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1998) "'Blame the Pint! I Reckon I Knows What I Knows.' Ebonics, Jim, and New Approaches to Teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" A Rhetoric for the Evolving Writer and TASP: A Study Guide "Uncle Tom: the Stereotype, the Man—Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

I'm trying to be the next family celebrity with my writing skills. I've shopped a couple of television shows that have gotten good response and I have some other irons in the fire. I have dated some celebrity men who I shall remain nameless on.

Chubb Rock and Howie Tee are my second cousins.

Ski of Original Flavor fame and Producer of Jay-Z Classics such as "Dead Presidents" and "Who you wit" was married to my first cousin on my Mom's side.

My Grandfather was the first General Secretary of Jamacia W.I., His brother Alvin was a world reknown sculpture artist who did that big stature of the athelete at the stadium on that wretched island and got some award from the queen after doing the bust for her that's in Buckinghamm palace.

yea

Derrick Thomas that used to play for the KC Cheifs and was killed in a car accident was my cousin..

Morris Chesnutt is my distant cousin.

i forget his name but in Malcolm X he was one of West Indian Archie boys, the dark skinned one. He's a distant cousin.

Greeting all.

Hey bpolite... six degrees of seperation!!!!

MY aunts husbands niece "Danny" is "the Rocks"Dwayne Johnson's wife.

Wow, this thread is hilarious.

(on multiple levels)

Bump, Bump, Bump

I heard I was related to the immortal porn star Long Dong Silver....

My great uncle (maternal grandmother's brother) Ted White, was married to Aretha Franklin and he owns publishing on some great songs... Aint No Way, Mustang Sally etc...

On the low, my great uncle's best friends cousin is Famous Amos.

No Famous people that I know of in my fam...only a couple of convicts and pimps from back in the day....that means that I am going to have to bust off alot of nuts to make sure that I create a legacy after me.

My sister's Father in Law is Bob Johnson's first cousin.

Kaleem is related to Colin Ferguson.

(jokes, sorta)

whats the over under on a Kaleem post that doesn't reference "cragguhs". Further to Dill's point; should he be allowed to represent himself on defense here

@ HollyWood Coles Sig.
Man that is some funny shyt.

My dad's cousin, his nephews aunts husbands dad is my friends Grand fathers niece.

impressive huh!

I think I'm related to Lee Malvo.

Jesus is a celebrity he is worship by millions just like other celebrities.



Moses is a celebrity he is known as one of the most faithful in all of God's house



These two I'm related to

My paternal great grandmothers' grandma is the daughter (from a slave mother) of President Andrew Johnson (the president that was almost impeached twice after Lincoln was killed). He allowed the passage of the "Black Codes" to appease the south. Kinda f'd-up seeing as he had black children.

My paternal grand uncles are Quartet Tres Bien (for those jazz heads).

LEE MALVO IS A CELEBRITY? DAMN!! I KNOW HE'S A VICTIM OF THAT DENZEL WASHINGTON LOOK ALIKE GUY. ANYONE HAVE UPDATE ON WETHER DENZEL ACCEPTED THE OFFER TO PLAY THE ROLE OF PLAYING MUHHAMED WHATEVER THAT GUY NAME IS? HE'D DO GREAT, THEY LOOK ALIKE AND MANERISMS SEEMS THE SAME.