* Today in Black History - October 25 *
1806 - Benjamin Banneker joins the ancestors at the age of 74
in Ellicott Mills, Maryland. Banneker was a self-
taught mathematician and builder (at age 21) of the
first striking clock built in the United States. An
amateur astronomer, Banneker's calculations for solar
and lunar eclipses appeared in 29 editions of his
almanacs, published from 1792 to 1797.
1915 - Attorney James L. Curtis is named minister to Liberia.
1926 - Crisis magazine, led by editor W.E.B. DuBois, awards its
first prizes in literature and art. Among the winners
will be Arna Bontemps' poem "Nocturne at Bethesda,"
Countee Cullen's poem "Thoughts in a Zoo," Aaron
Douglas' painting "African Chief" and a portrait by
Hale Woodruff.
1940 - The Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the
National Defense Program met with President Roosevelt.
1940 - The National Newspaper Publishers Association is
founded.
1940 - The Spingarn Medal is presented to Dr. Louis T. Wright
for his civil rights leadership and his contributions
as a surgeon.
1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. is promoted to Brigadier
General, the first African American to attain that rank
in the United States Army or any other branch of the
Armed Forces.
1955 - Robin Eubanks is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After
graduating cum laude from the University of the Arts, he
will move to New York City. He will first appear on the jazz
scene in the early 1980s. He will play with Slide Hampton,
Sun Ra, and Stevie Wonder. He will also be the musical
director with the jazz drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz
Messengers. He will also be a member of jazz drummer Elvin
Jones Jazz Machine. He will also be a contributor on fellow
jazz trombonist Steve Turre's 2003 release One4J: Paying
Homage to J.J. Johnson. He will also release several albums
as a bandleader. He will play for 15 years in double bassist
Dave Holland's quintet, sextet, octet and big band. J.J.
Johnson will recommend him for the position at the Oberlin
Conservatory in Ohio, where he will teach for 20 years as a
tenured professor of Jazz Trombone and Jazz Composition. He
will also teach at New England Conservatory and Berklee
College of Music in Boston. He will be a member in the all-
star group the SFJAZZ Collective for 10 years 2008-2019. He
will be one of the pioneers of M-Base. He will appear on
numerous television shows and specials, including The Tonight
Show, Saturday Night Live and The Grammys. He will also
pioneer the use of electronic effects with the trombone. He
will be a frequent lecturer, guest soloist and clinician at
various colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the
world. He will be voted #1 Trombonist by Down Beat magazine
and Jazz Times. He is the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks
and trumpeter Duane Eubanks. His uncles are jazz pianist Ray
Bryant and bassist Tommy Bryant.
1958 - Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson, Harry
Belfonte and A. Phillip Randolph, participate in the
Youth March for integrated schools in Washington, DC.
1958 - Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP,
and the nine students who integrated Little Rocks's
Central High School are awarded the Spingarn Medal for
their courage and leadership in the civil rights
struggle.
1962 - Uganda is admitted as the 110th member of the United
Nations.
1964 - Kevin Michael Richardson is born in The Bronx, New York. He will
become an actor and voice actor, who will play a multitude of
characters in animated series and video games. He will be known
for his distinctively deep voice and will play mostly villainous
characters since the 1990s. For voicing the Joker in The Batman
(2004–08), he will be nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards.
He will usually portray villainous characters due to his deep
and powerful voice. In 1995, he will obtained his first voice
role; Mayor Tilton on the animated TV version of The Mask. His
credits will include Captain Gantu in Lilo & Stitch and its
franchise, Shnitzel in the Chowder pilot (and will be later
replaced by John DiMaggio), Goro in Mortal Kombat, the second
voice of Skulker on Danny Phantom, Sarevok in the Baldur's Gate
series, Jolee Bindo in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic,
Crunch Bandicoot in the Crash Bandicoot games, Tartarus from
Halo 2, Chairman Drek in Ratchet & Clank, Antauri in Super
Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Openly Gator from Queer Duck,
Doctor Payne and others on The Proud Family, Dark Laser on The
Fairly OddParents, Maurice from The Penguins of Madagascar,
Slam Tasmanian and Tech E. Coyote on Loonatics Unleashed and
the voice of Exile in the 1990s animated series Road Rovers.
He will also replace Keith David as the voice of Tombstone on
The Spectacular Spider-Man. He will provide a character voice
set for Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II. He
will be the voice of Heihachi in the PlayStation 2 game Soul
Calibur II, though he is listed in the role as Victor Stone.
He will also voice Stump Smash and Tree Rex in Skylanders:
Swap Force, Skylanders: Trap Team and Skylanders: SuperChargers.
In 2001, he will voice Barney Rubble in the animated movie The
Flintstones: On the Rocks. In 2003, he will voice Trigon in the
animated series Teen Titans. In 2004, he will become the first
African American to voice the Joker in the Kids WB animated
series, The Batman, a role for which he will be twice nominated
for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an
Animated Program. In 2006, he will appear in the comedy Clerks
II in which he plays a cop who notices the words "Porch Monkey
4 Life" written on the back of Randal Graves' work jacket. In
2008, he will perform the voice of Bishop for Wolverine and the
X-Men. Later, he will do the voice of Nick Fury on The Super
Hero Squad Show. He will often play characters based on comedian
Bill Cosby, such as on Family Guy ("Brian Does Hollywood"), where
Stewie is a contestant on the comedian's Kids Say the Darndest
Things; as Cosby himself on The Boondocks and playing the role of
Numbuh 5's father Mr. Lincoln, who is also a homage of Cosby on
Codename: Kids Next Door. His most frequent role on Family Guy
will be as Jerome, Lois's ex-boyfriend. He will also voice
Cleveland Brown, Jr., Lester Krinklesac and numerous others on
The Cleveland Show. He will voice Principal Brian Lewis on
American Dad!. His voice roles (in 2011) will include Panthro in
the 2011 Thundercats series, Martian Manhunter on Young Justice,
and Bulkhead, one of the Autobots in Transformers: Prime.
1968 - The city of Chicago officially recognizes Jean Baptiste
Pointe du Sable as its first settler.
1971 - Craig Phillip Robinson is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will become
an actor, comedian, musician and singer. He will be best known for
his roles as Darryl Philbin on The Office (2005–2013) and Doug
Judy (the "Pontiac Bandit") on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–). He will
be a frequent collaborator with Seth Rogen, starring alongside Rogen
in the films Knocked Up (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Zack and
Miri Make a Porno (2008), This Is the End (2013) and Sausage Party
(2016). On top of Shrek Forever After and Sausage Party, he will
also provide his voice for the films Escape from Planet Earth (2013),
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) and Henchmen (2018). He will
also appear in what was then the highest grossing Korean film, D-War
(Korean: 디워, released in North America as Dragon Wars: D-War) in
2007. Making a departure from his comedy background, he will portray
saxophonist Maceo Parker in the James Brown biopic Get On Up (2014).
In December 2015, he will appear in several Wal-Mart commercials
promoting their credit card while singing and playing the piano at
the store. He will receive rave reviews for the A24 drama Morris
from America (2016), earning a nomination for the Independent Spirit
Award for Best Supporting Male.
1972 - Persia Jessica White is born in Miami, Florida. She will become an
actress, singer and musician. She will perhaps be best known for her
role as Lynn Searcy on the sitcom Girlfriends which originally aired
from 2000 until 2008. She will also be a member of the industrial
rock band XEO3 and a solo singer, who will release her debut album
Mecca in 2009. She will appear in various independent films,
including Red Letters (opposite Peter Coyote) and the cult horror
Blood Dolls. She will star in the made-for-TV movies Operation
Sandman (opposite Ron Perlman), and Suddenly, opposite Kirstie Alley.
Her television work will include guest starring roles on Angel, NYPD
Blue, The Steve Harvey Show, Brooklyn South, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
as well as a series regular role on Breaker High with co-star Ryan
Gosling and Hit TV Series Girlfriends as Lynn. In 2008, she will
appear in The Fall of Night, as the character Dawn. She will also be
seen in Chrisette Michele's video, "Be OK". In addition to acting,
she will also co-produce the award-winning documentary Earthlings,
narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. In July 2011, she will win the award for
Best Performance By An Actor in the American Black Film Festival for
her work in Dysfunctional Friends. She will also appear as Bonnie's
mother on The Vampire Diaries in a semi-recurring role.
1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathoner who won the Olympic Gold Medal in
1960 and 1964, joins the ancestors at the age of 46.
1976 - Clarence "Willie" Norris, the last surviving member of
the nine Scottsboro Boys, who were convicted in 1931
of the alleged rape of two white women on a freight
train, is pardoned by Governor George Wallace. Norris
had spent 15 years in prison and had been a fugitive
fleeing parole in Alabama in 1946.
1983 - Mary Francis Berry, professor of history and law at
Howard University, and two other members of the Civil
Rights Commission are fired by President Ronald Reagan.
Considered a champion of minority concerns on the
Commission, Berry will charge the administration with
attempting to "shut up" criticism. She will later sue
and be reinstated.
1983 - The United States and six other Caribbean nations
invade the island nation of Grenada.
1985 - Ciara Princess Harris is born in Austin, Texas. She will become a
singer, songwriter, dancer, and model. After moving to Atlanta,
Georgia, she will join the girl group Hearsay. She will later
sign a publishing deal, and befriend producer Jazze Pha, who
will record demos that will appear on her debut album. With his
help, Ciara will sign a record deal with LaFace Records. In 2004,
she will release her debut studio album Goodies, which will spawn
four singles: "Goodies", "1, 2 Step", "Oh" and "And I". "Goodies"
will top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album will be certified
triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA), and garner four nominations at the 48th Annual Grammy
Awards. She will also be featured on Missy Elliott's "Lose Control"
and Bow Wow's "Like You", both of which will reach number three on
the Billboard Hot 100. In 2006, she will release her second studio
album, Ciara: The Evolution, which will spawn the hit singles "Get
Up", "Promise", "Like a Boy" and "Can't Leave 'em Alone". The
album will reach number one in the U.S. and be certified platinum.
Her third studio album, Fantasy Ride (2009) will be less successful
than her first two albums. However, it will produce the
international top-ten single "Love Sex Magic", featuring Justin
Timberlake, which will receive a Grammy Award nomination for Best
Pop Collaboration with Vocals. The following year, she will release
her fourth studio album Basic Instinct, which will include the R&B
top-five single "Ride", but will be met with low sales, continuing
a downward trend in her commercial performance. She will sign a
new record deal with Epic Records in 2011. In 2013, she will
release her fifth studio album, Ciara, which will spawn the R&B
top-ten single "Body Party". Her sixth album, Jackie (2015), will
include the singles "I Bet" and "Dance like We're Making Love". In
2006, she will make her film debut in All You've Got, and later
appear in the films Mama, I Want to Sing! (2012) and That's My Boy
(2012). In 2013, she will have a recurring role in the US TV series,
The Game. In 2016, she will sign a modeling contract with IMG. That
year, she will become a Global Brand Ambassador for the cosmetics
giant Revlon. Since making her musical debut in 2004, she will
attain eight Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles. She will also
receive many awards, including three BET Awards, three MTV Video
Music Awards, three MOBO Awards, and one Grammy Award. As of 2015,
she will sell over 23 million records worldwide.
1988 - Two units of the Ku Klux Klan and eleven individuals
are ordered to pay $1 million to African Americans who
were attacked during a brotherhood rally in
predominately white Forsythe County, Georgia.
1990 - Evander Holyfield knocks out James "Buster" Douglas in
the third round of their twelve-round fight to become
the undisputed world heavyweight champion. Holyfield's
record stood at 25-0, with 21 knockouts.
1997 - The Million Woman March, organized by grass root sisters,
led by Sister Phile Chionesu and Sister Asia Coney,
takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event
is attended by 1.3 million attendees (300,000 to 1
million according to Philadelphia officials). The MWM
had been promoted by word of mouth and avoided
traditional media and mainstream groups, such as
sororities and many civil rights groups. Sis. Chionesu
calls the march "a declaration of independence from
ignorance, poverty, enslavement, and all the things
that have happened to us that has helped to bring about
the confusion and disharmony that we experience with
one another."
2018 - Sahle-Work Zewde is elected as President of Ethiopia and the first
woman to hold the office. A career diplomat, she was elected
president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary
Assembly. Sahle-Work was previously Special Representative of
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to the African
Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union
at the level of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
As of 2019, she is Africa's only serving female head of state.
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