* Today in Black History - October 8 *
1775 - A council of general officers decides to bar slaves and
free African Americans from serving in the Continental
Army.
1930 - Faith Ringgold is born in New York City. She will become
a multimedia artist whose paintings, face masks, fabric
and soft sculptures, and quilts will earn her praise for
her reaffirmation of African American women's values and
unique perspective. In 1995, she will publish her first
autobiography entitled "We Flew Over the Bridge." The
book will be a memoir detailing her journey as an artist
and life events, from her childhood in Harlem and Sugar
Hill, to her marriages and children, to her professional
career and accomplishments as an artist. Two years later,
she will receive two honorary Doctorates, one for
Education from Wheelock College in Boston, and the second
for Philosophy from Molloy College in New York.
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves a new War Department
policy allowing African Americans to serve in all branches
of the service, but on a segregated basis.
1941 - Jesse Louis Burns, later named Jesse L. Jackson, is born
in Greenville, South Carolina. He will become a civil
rights leader, minister and founder of Operation PUSH
(People United to Save Humanity) in 1971, an organization
that will focus attention on the economic disparity
between whites and African Americans. In 1988, he will be
a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination,
winning 18.09% of the Democractic primary vote. He will
serve as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of
Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
1950 - Robert Earl "Kool" Bell is born in Youngstown, Ohio and
raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. He will become a Rhythm
and Blues singer and will become co-founder and leader of
the group, "Kool & the Gang."
1963 - The Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to
Kenya.
1964 - Priscilla Marie Winans Love, known professionally as CeCe
Winans, is born in Detroit, Michigan. She will become a
gospel singer, selling over 12 million records worldwide
and winning 12 Grammy Awards. She will become the best-
selling female gospel artist of all time, as of 2015. She
will co-pastor a church with her husband: Nashville Life
Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
1966 - Karyn Parsons is born in Los Angeles, California. She will
become an actress and comedian. She will be best known
for her role as Hilary Banks on the NBC sitcom "The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air" from 1990 to 1996. She will co-create,
co-produce, co-write, and co-star on the Fox sitcom "Lush
Life" in 1996, which will be later canceled after four
episodes. In 2001, she will star in the critically
acclaimed but short-lived television series, "The Job"
with Denis Leary. Besides television, she will star in
several films, particularly in comedies such as "Late
Nights" (1992), "Major Payne" (1995), and "The Ladies Man"
(2000). She will be the creator of "Sweet Blackberry," a
line of animated films about unsung black heroes. The
first in the series is about Henry "Box" Brown, a slave
who mailed himself to freedom.
1969 - Police officers and African Americans exchange sniper
fire on Chicago's West Side. One youth is killed and
nine policemen are injured.
1980 - Nicholas Scott Cannon is born in San Diego, California. He
will become an actor, rapper, director, producer, television
presenter, radio personality, and activist. On television,
he will begin as a teenager on "All That" before going on to
host "The Nick Cannon Show," "Wild 'N Out," "America's Got
Talent," "Lip Sync Battle Shorties" and "The Masked Singer."
He will act in the films "Drumline," "Love Don't Cost a Thing"
and "Roll Bounce." As a rapper, he will release his debut
self-titled album in 2003 with the hit single "Gigolo", a
collaboration with singer R. Kelly. In 2007, he will play the
role of the fictional footballer TJ Harper in the film "Goal
II: Living the Dream." In 2006, he will record the singles
"Dime Piece" and "My Wife" for the planned album "Stages,"
which will never release. He will marry American Rhythm &
Blues/pop singer Mariah Carey in 2008. The pair will separate
and file for divorce in December 2014. The divorce will be
finalized in 2016, and they will co-parent their children.
1992 - The Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to West Indies
poet, Derek Walcott.
1993 - The U.N. General Assembly lifts almost all its remaining
economic sanctions against South Africa, begun in the
1960s and built up in subsequent years because of
Pretoria's policy of racial apartheid.
1999 - Laila Ali, the 21-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali,
makes her professional boxing debut by knocking out
opponent April Fowler 31 seconds after the opening bell
in Verona, New York.
2009 - Abu Talib, bluesman who recorded and toured with Ray Charles
and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson,
joins the ancestors in Lancaster, California after
succumbing to cancer.
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