*                   Today in Black History - May 29                   *

1910 - Ralph Metcalfe is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He will become a
        world record holder in the 100-yard and 200-yard dashes and win a
        bronze medal in the 1932 Olympic Games and gold and silver medals
        in the 1936 Games. He will also become a four-term congressman
        representing Illinois's 1st District.

1938 - Ronald Milner is born in Detroit, Michigan. He will become trained
        as a writer and will exhibit his skills as a playwright when he
        produces his first play , "Who's Got His Own" on Broadway in 1966.
        In 1969, he will help start "The Black Theater Movement," which
        will promote plays in which African Americans could represent
        their lives on stage. His works will include "What The
        Wine-Sellers Buy," "Jazz Set," "Don't Get God Started," and
        "Checkmates."

1944 - Maurice Bishop is born in Aruba and will be raised in Grenada.
        While attending college in England during the early 1960s, he
        will become involved in the Black Power Movement and be heavily
        influenced by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. Kwame Nkrumah,
        and Walter Rodney, the Guyanese activist. After returning to
        Grenada in 1970, he will cofound a political organization,
        "Movement for Assemblies of the People." This organization will
        later merge with another political group, forming the "New Jewel
        Movement." After constant conflict with, and harassment by,
        Grenada's ruling regime, Bishop will become the minority leader
        in the Grenadian government in 1976. In 1979, Bishop will become
        the Prime Minister after leading a bloodless coup. He will
        develop close ties with Castro's Cuba and will obtain government
        funding from Cuba and the Soviet Union. These relationships will
        cause the United States to impose sanctions against Grenada which
        led to internal turmoil in the Grenadian ruling party. After a
        party split, Bishop and his primary supporters will be executed
        in October of 1983. Using this event as an excuse to involve
        themselves in the politics of the region, the United States will
        invade Grenada and keep a "peacekeeping" mission on the island
        until 1985.

1950 - Maureen "Rebbie" Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.  Rebbie will
        make her professional debut at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with
        her siblings, the Jackson's.  In the late 70s, she will begin to
        consider a solo career.  Artists such as Betty Wright and Wanda
        Hutchinson of the Emotions will mentor her, but it will be her
        brother Michael who pens and produces her very first hit,
        "Centipede."  As the title track of Rebbie's 1984 debut,
        "Centipede," introduces the pop world to a Jackson most never
        knew existed.

1956 - La Toya Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.  She will become a
        singer and one of the most controversial members of the Jackson
        family.  She will be referred to as "The Rebel With A Cause." She
        will cause a big stir, when she poses for Playboy Magazine. Her
        book, "La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family," will be on the
        New York Times Best Seller List for nine weeks.  She will attract
        full capacity audiences in her performances all over the world.

1962 - Buck (John) O'Neil becomes the first African American coach in
        major-league baseball.  He accepts the job with the Chicago Cubs.
        O'Neil had previously been a scout with the Cubs organization.
        He had been a notable first baseman in Black baseball.

1965 - Ralph Boston sets a world record in the broad jump at 27 feet,
        4-3/4 inches, at a meet held in Modesto, California.

1969 - Artist and art educator James V. Herring joins the ancestors in
        Washington, DC.  Herring organized the first American art gallery
        to be directed and controlled by African Americans on the Howard
        University campus in 1930, founded and directed the university's
        art department and, with Alonzo Aden, opened the famed
        Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, DC, in 1943.

1973 - Tom Bradley is elected the first African American mayor of Los
        Angeles, California.  Winning after a bitter defeat four years
        earlier by incumbent mayor Sam Yorty, Bradley, a Texas native and
        former Los Angeles Police Department veteran, will serve an
        unprecedented five terms.

1980 - Vernon E. Jordan Jr., President of the National Urban League, is
        critically injured in an attempted assassination in Fort Wayne,
        Indiana.

1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first civilian president in 15
        years, after a series of military regimes.

2003 - Wallace Terry joins the ancestors at the age of 65 after succumbing
        to inflammation of blood vessels.  He was a journalist and author of
        "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans."

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