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Xavier Prather
Xavier Prather (born May 12, 1994), is an American lawyer and reality television personality. He is the winner of the twenty-third season of the American reality television series '' Big Brother'', becoming the first African-American to win a regular season in the show's twenty-one-year history. In 2022, he appeared as a contestant on '' The Challenge: USA'' where he was eliminated during Episode 4. Outside reality television, Prather is a practicing attorney and a former college basketball player. Personal life Prather was born on May 12, 1994, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated from Gull Lake High School in 2012, where he stood out as a member of the school's varsity basketball team. He attended Spring Arbor University from 2012 to 2016, earning his Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice. While there, he served as a member of the Spring Arbor Cougars men's basketball team. He went on to attend the Valparaiso University School of Law in 2017, earning his Juris Doctor in 20 ...
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 335,340 in 2015. Kalamazoo is equidistant from Chicago and Detroit, being about 140 miles (225 kilometers) away from both. One of Kalamazoo's most notable features is the Kalamazoo Mall, an outdoor pedestrian shopping mall. The city created the mall in 1959 by closing part of Burdick Street to auto traffic, although two of the mall's four blocks have been reopened to auto traffic since 1999. Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a large public university, Kalamazoo College, a private liberal arts college, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college. Name origin Originally known as Bronson (after founder Titus Bronson) in the township of Arcadia, the na ...
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Milwaukee is the List of United States cities by population, 31st largest city in the United States, the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States, and the second largest city on Lake Michigan's shore behind Chicago. It is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, the fourth-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States, Midwest. Milwaukee is considered a global city, categorized as "Gamma minus" by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, with a regional List of U.S. metropolitan areas by GDP, GDP of over $102 billion in 2020. Today, Milwaukee is one of the most ethnicity, ethnically and Cultural diversity, cult ...
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Marquette University Law School Alumni
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Lawyers From Milwaukee
A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solicitor, legal executive, or public servant — with each role having different functions and privileges. Working as a lawyer generally involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific problems. Some lawyers also work primarily in advancing the interests of the law and legal profession. Terminology Different legal jurisdictions have different requirements in the determination of who is recognized as being a lawyer. As a result, the meaning of the term "lawyer" may vary from place to place. Some jurisdictions have two types of lawyers, barrister and solicitors, while others fuse the two. A barrister (also known as an advocate or counselor in some jurisdictions) is a lawyer who typically specializes in ...
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People From Kalamazoo, Michigan
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ...
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The Challenge (TV Series) Contestants
The Challenge may refer to: Film * ''The Challenge'', a 1916 silent film starring Montagu Love * The Challenge (1922 film), ''The Challenge'' (1922 film), an American silent film directed by Tom Terriss * The Challenge (1938 film), ''The Challenge'' (1938 film), a mountain-climbing story starring Robert Douglas * The Challenge (1948 film), ''The Challenge'' (1948 film), an American film starring Tom Conway * The Challenge (1958 film), ''The Challenge'' (1958 film), an Italian film by Francesco Rosi, starring José Suárez * The Challenge (1960 film), ''The Challenge'' (1960 film), a British crime film featuring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle * The Challenge (1970 film), ''The Challenge'' (1970 film), starring Darren McGavin * ''The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art'', a 1974 documentary film * The Challenge (1982 film), ''The Challenge'' (1982 film), an action movie starring Scott Glenn and Toshirō Mifune * The Challenge (2003 film), ''The Challenge'' (2003 film), featurin ...
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Big Brother (American TV Series) Winners
Big Brother may refer to: * Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four''), a character from George Orwell's novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' ** Authoritarian personality, any omnipresent figure representing oppressive control ** Big Brother Awards, a satirical award for acts against personal privacy ** Big Brother Watch, a UK pressure group * Surveillance ** Surveillance state * An older brother, see birth order Organisations *Big Brother Movement Music * "Big Brother" (David Bowie song) * "Big Brother" (Kanye West song) * Big Brother and the Holding Company, an American band ** ''Big Brother & the Holding Company'' (album), a 1967 album by the band of the same name * Big Brother Recordings, a UK record label * "Big Brother", a 2004 song by Girls Aloud from ''What Will the Neighbours Say?'' * "Big Brother", a song by Morten Abel * "Big Brother", a song by Reset from '' No Limits'' * "Big Brother", a song by Stevie Wonder from ''Talking Book'' Television * ''Big Brother'' ( ...
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African-American Lawyers
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, enslaved Africans who are from the United States. While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African-American, the majority of first generation immigrants do not, preferring to identify with their nation of origin. African Americans constitute the second largest racial group in the U.S. after White Americans, as well as the third largest ethnic group after Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of West Africa, West/Central Africa, Central African with some European descent; some also have Native Americans in th ...
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1994 Births
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first President of South Africa, president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skull, Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutu, Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 1994 Northridge earthquake, Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 40 ...
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Taylor Hale
Taylor Mackenzie Dickens Hale (born December 31, 1994), is an American reality television personality and former beauty pageant titleholder. She is the winner of the 24th season of the American reality television series ''Big Brother'', becoming the first African-American woman to win the series. She is also the first houseguest to win both the game and the America's Favorite Houseguest prize. Prior to ''Big Brother'', she was crowned Miss Michigan USA 2021 and won Miss Congeniality at the Miss USA 2021 pageant. Personal life Hale was born on December 31, 1994, in Detroit, Michigan. She attended Detroit Country Day School from kindergarten through grade 12, graduating in 2013. She graduated from George Washington University in 2017, where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. Hale resides in West Bloomfield, Michigan. On November 9, 2022, she confirmed her relationship with fellow '' Big Brother 24'' contestant Joseph Abdin. Miss Michigan USA Hale competed in and won the ...
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Big Brother 24 (American Season)
''Big Brother 24'' is the twenty-fourth season of the American reality television program '' Big Brother''. The season premiered on July 6, 2022, on CBS in the United States and Global in Canada. Hosted by Julie Chen Moonves, the show follows a group of contestants (known as HouseGuests), who live in a house together while being constantly filmed and having no communication with the outside world as they compete to win a grand prize of . The season ran for 82 days, with the season ending on September 25, 2022, when Taylor Hale was crowned the winner, defeating Monte Taylor. Hale became the first black female HouseGuest to win, as well as the second black HouseGuest to win in the main edition of the show. She was also voted America's Favorite HouseGuest, becoming the first winner to also claim this prize. On September 25, 2022, CBS renewed the series for a twenty-fifth season. Format ''Big Brother'' follows a group of contestants, known as HouseGuests, who live inside a custom- ...
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