* Today in Black History - May 28 *
1863 - The first African American regiment from the North leaves Boston
to fight in the Civil War.
1910 - Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker is born in Linden, Texas. He will
become a creator of the modern blues and a pioneer in the
development of the electric guitar sound that will shape
virtually all of popular music in the post-World War II period.
Equally important, Walker will be the quintessential blues
guitarist. He will influence virtually every major post-World
War II guitarist, including B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie
King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Eric Clapton, and Stevie
Ray Vaughan. He will join the ancestors on March 16, 1975.
1936 - Betty Sanders is born in Detroit, Michigan. She will become the
wife of El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), Hajja Betty Bahiyah
Shabazz. After the assassination of Malcolm, she will show
herself to be a very strong individual in her own right. She will
face the difficulty of raising six children after witnessing
Malcom's tragic death. In order to support herself and her
children, she will go back to school, earning three degrees
including a doctorate in education from the University of
Massachusetts. She will teach others and become an international
figure of dignity and discipline. She will work on Jesse Jackson's
campaigns for the presidency, and will work in the African
liberation struggle to free Angola, Namibia and South Africa, and
to bring democracy to Haiti. She will join the ancestors on June
23, 1997 after succumbing to injuries received in a fire at her
New York home. At the time she will be the director of
Institutional Advancement and Public Relations at Medgar Evers
College in Brooklyn, New York.
1944 - Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Making her first
public appearance at age four, she will win first place on Ted
Mack's Original Amateur Hour at seven. A member of the "Gladys
Knight and the Pips" since the early 1950's, Knight will remain
with the popular group for over 30 years before pursuing a
successful solo career. She will record two number-one Billboard
Hot 100 singles ("Midnight Train to Georgia" and "That's What
Friends Are For"), eleven number-one Rhythm & Blues singles, and
six number-one Rhythm & Blues albums. She will win seven Grammy
Awards (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips) and is an
inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with The Pips.
She will also record the theme song for the 1989 James Bond film
Licence to Kill. She is also listed as one of Rolling Stone
magazine's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
1951 - Willie Mays gets his first major league hit, a home run.
1962 - A suit alleging de facto school segregation is filed in Rochester,
New York, by the NAACP.
1966 - Percy Sledge hits number one with his first -- and what turned out
to be his biggest -- hit. "When a Man Loves a Woman" would stay
at the top of the pop music charts for two weeks. It will be the
singer's only hit to make the top ten and a million seller.
1968 - Richard Simpson is born in Kingston, Jamaica. He will become a New
York-based rapper known as Chubb Rock. He will release several
commercially successful hip hop albums in the early 1990s. A former
National Merit Scholar, he will be a pre-med student who drops out
of Brown University to pursue his musical career. He will first
appear on the national scene with his 1988 self-titled debut "Chubb
Rock" and 1989's "And the winner is..." The latter will produce the
minor hit "Ya Bad Chubbs" which will garner air play on Yo! MTV Raps
during that time. His 1990 release entitled The One, will reach No.
13 on Billboard's "Top Hip-Hop/R&B" chart for that year. Three
singles from that release, "Treat'em Right", "Just The Two of Us"
and "The Chubbster", will make it to No. 1 on Billboard's "Top Rap
Single" chart list for the same year. His work in the 2000s will be
limited to only a few songs. He will appear on a song for Raptivism
Records' "No More Prisons" project with Lil' Dap of Group Home and
Ed O.G., and will also work with Mr. Len on the song "Dummy Smacks",
where he says, "Some people thought I was gone... never that!" He will
make an appearance alongside Vast Aire on the 2007 Zimbabwe Legit
album House of Stone with the song "Wake Up". In 2001 he will appear
in the soundtrack for Wet Hot American Summer on the song Summer in
America.
1974 - Cicely Tyson wins two Emmy awards for best actress in a special
and best actress in a drama for her portrayal of a strong
Southern matriarch in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman."
1974 - Richard Pryor wins an Emmy for his writing contributions on the
Lily Tomlin special "Lily."
1981 - Mary Lou Williams joins the ancestors in Durham, North Carolina at
the age of 71. A jazz pianist who played with Louis Armstrong,
Tommy Dorsey, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Benny Goodman, she formed
her own band in 1943. Williams was known for her jazz masses
including one "Mary Lou's Mass" that was choreographed by the
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1971.
1983 - Megalyn Echikunwoke is born in Spokane, Washington. She will become
an actress, appeaing on television as Tara Price in CSI: Miami,
Isabelle Tyler in The 4400 and as Mari McCabe / Vixen in the
Arrowverse. She will appear on Fox's That '70s Show as Hyde's half
sister, Angie Barnett, and will have a recurring role on TNT's
Raising the Bar where she played the love interest of attorney Marcus
McGrath, played by J. August Richards. In 2011, she will play Holly
in the fourth season of 90210. She will play April on Showtime's
House of Lies and Riley Parker in the legal drama Made in Jersey on
CBS. In 2014, she will co-star in the drama series Mind Games on ABC.
She will also appear on the CW's Arrow as the DC Comics superhero
Vixen for an episode, as well as providing her voice for the character
in a short animated series. Due to prior commitments, she will be
unavailable to play the character in Legends of Tomorrow, resulting in
the introduction of a new Vixen played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers,
who is the time-displaced grandmother of Echikunwoke's character. She
will play the role of Claire in the off-Broadway production of
Apologia, alongside Hugh Dancy and Stockard Channing. The play will
run from October 16, 2018, to December 16, 2018.
1991 - Journalist Ethel L. Payne joins the ancestors in Washington, DC at
the age of 79.
2003 - Janet Collins, ballerina, joins the ancestors at age 86. She was
the first African American artist to perform at the Metropolitan
Opera House.
2014 - Legendary author and poetess, Maya Angelou joins the ancestors at
her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She leaves behind a
body of important artistic work that influenced several
generations. She will be praised by those who knew her as a good
person, a woman who pushed for justice and education and equality.
She will write staggeringly beautiful poetry. She will also write
a cookbook and be nominated for a Tony. She will deliver a poem at
a presidential inauguration. In 2010, President Barack Obama names
her a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's
highest civilian honor. She will be friends with Malcolm X and the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and inspire young adults and world
celebrities. She will be best known for her book "I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings," which will bear witness to the brutality of a
Jim Crow South.
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