In case you all are not familiar with the City of Gary, I will give you a brief background about it. First of all, it is located in Northwest Indiana. It is around the Chicagoland area due to being about twenty minutes away from the Windy City of Chicago, Illinois. It is also a fact that 85% plus of its 100,000 plus population is African American. For any other additional information about Gary, outside of the information in this paragraph and/or this entire section of my homepage, please click here or here.
G.I.'s Most Notables
Business
John Raczka - Senior Vice President of Content for British Telecommunications Openworld in London, England
Danita Johnson-Hughes - CEO/President of Edgewater Systems for Balanced Living
Charlie Finley - Former Owner of the Major League Baseball Oakland Athletics
Veronica Curry - The American Airlines station manager of ground operations at the Washington, D.C. airport
Vivian Carter - Owner of the Former VeeJay Records and who also discovered the The Beatles
Artis Twyman - Assistant Director of Football Media for the NFL St. Louis Rams
Robert Kearns - Intermittent Windshield Wiper Inventor
Chelsea Stallings - Corporate Communications Manager for Johnson Publishing Company
Ken Davis - Founder of Butta Slick Car Polisher
Eric Lamont Mayberry - Director of New Business Development for Philadelphia Newspapers, Incorporated
Entertainment
The Jackson Family(Michael, Janet, etc.) - Musical Superstars
Bobby Samar - Actor, Dancer, and Producer
Lenee Adkins - Model and Professional Dancer
William L. Johnson, Jr. - Singer and Actor
James McCracken - Musician
Monica Dumas - Comedian
Triphena Johnson - Model
The Powell Family(Jesse, Tamara, and Trina) - R & B Vocalists
Alonzo Russell - Actor
Debbi (McKay) Diaz - Dancer
Big Daddy and The Kinsey Report - A Blues Singing Group
Karen Freeman-Wilson - CEO of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals
and Former Indiana State Attorney General and Gary City Court Judge
Katie Hall - Gary City Clerk, A Commissioner for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Commission, and Indiana's First African American and Female Congresswoman
Sports
Mark Atkins - Former Professional Basketball Player
