*               Today in Black History - July 22               *	

1848 - Lester Walton is appointed minister to Liberia.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln reads the first draft of the Emancipation
	Proclamation to his cabinet.

1933 - Caterina Jarboro becomes the first African American prima 
	donna of an United States opera company.  She will 
	perform "Aida" with the Chicago Opera Company at the 
	Hippodrome in New York City.  The New York Times music 
	editor will report: "The young soprano brought a vivid 
	dramatic sense that kept her impersonation vital without
	overacting, and an Italian diction remarkably pure and 
	distinct." Her fame, however, will be short-lived. Once 
	the American opera establishment realizes that she is not
	Italian but African American, her career will come to an 
	end. The newly founded New York Metropolitan Opera 
	Association will refuse to accept her as a member.
	Nonetheless, her contribution to opera will be powerful 
	and far-reaching.  

1937 - Chuck Jackson is born in Latta, South Carolina.  He will 
	be raised in Pittsburgh and will become a Rhythm & Blues 
	singer.  He will be discovered when he opens for soul 
	legend Jackie Wilson at the Apollo Theater. He will sign a
	recording contract with Scepter. His first single,"I Don't
	Want to Cry", which he co-wrote, will be his first hit 
	(1961). The song will chart on both Rhythm & Blues and pop
	charts. In 1962, His recording of "Any Day Now", the Burt
	Bacharach-Bob Hilliard classic, will become a huge hit. In
	1967, he will move from Scepter to Motown Records, where 
	he will record a number of successful singles, including 
	"Are You Lonely for Me" and "Honey Come Back."

1939 - Jane Matilda Bolin is appointed to the New York City Court 
	of Domestic Relations by Mayor Fiorello Laguardia, becoming
	the first African American woman judge. 

1941 - George Clinton is born in Kannapolis, North Carolina.  He 
	will grow up in Plainfield, New Jersey. In Plainfield, he 
	will run a barber salon, where he straightens hair, and will
	soon formed a doo wop group, inspired by Frankie Lymon & the
	Teenagers, called The Parliaments. The Parliaments will 
	eventually find success under the names Parliament and 
	Funkadelic in the seventies. Parliament Funkadelic will 
	record "Testify", "Mothership Connection", "First Thangs", 
	"Up For The Down Stroke", "Chocolate City", "The Clones of 
	Dr. Funkenstein," "Atomic Dog," and many others. The 
	popularity of Clinton and his group will last over thirty 
	years. He will be widely considered one of the forefathers of
	funk.  Usually recording under the name George Clinton & the 
	P.Funk All-Stars, he will record several solo albums. In 1982,
	he will sign to Capitol Records as a solo artist and as the  
	P.Funk All-Stars, releasing Computer Games that same year. 
	"Loopzilla" hit the Top 20 R&B charts, followed by "Atomic 
	Dog," which reached #1 R&B, but peaked at #101 on the pop  
	chart. In the next four years, he will release three more 
	studio albums (You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish, Some of My Best 
	Jokes Are Friends and R&B Skeletons in the Closet) as well as
	a live album, Mothership Connection (Live from the Summit, 
	Houston, Texas) and charting three singles in the R&B Top 30,
	"Nubian Nut," "Last Dance," and "Do Fries Go with that Shake."
	His popularity will wane in the mid 1980s, but revive by the 
	rise of rap music (particularly, in the 1990s, G Funk), as 
	many rappers cited him as an influence and began sampling
	his songs. Alongside James Brown, George Clinton will be 
	considered to be  one of the most sampled musicians ever.
	In 1989, he will release The Cinderella Theory on Paisley Park,
	Prince's record label. This will be followed by Hey Man, Smell
	My Finger. He will then sign with Sony 550 and release 
	T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (The Awesome Power Of A Fully Operational 
	Mothership) in 1996, having reunited with several old members 
	of Parliament and Funkadelic. He will be known for his 
	flamboyant style. In the 1990s, he will appear in films such as
	Graffiti Bridge (1990), Good Burger (1997) and PCU (1994). He 
	will also appear as the voice of The Funktipus, the DJ of the 
	Bounce FM station in the 2004 video game, Grand Theft Auto: San
	Andreas. Rapper Dr. Dre will sample most of his beats to create
	his G-Funk music era.

1947 - Daniel Lebern "Danny" Glover is born in San Francisco, 
	California. He will become an actor and will star in the 
	"Lethal Weapon" movies, "Operation Dumbo Drop", "Silverado", 
	"Escape from Alcatraz", "Chiefs", "The Color Purple", "Angels 
	in the Outfield", and "Places in the Heart". He will serve as 
	board chair of the TransAfrica Forum, "a non-profit organization
	dedicated to educating the general public - particularly African
	Americans - on the economic, political and moral ramifications of
	U.S. foreign policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the
	Caribbean and Latin America." In March 1998, he will be appointed
	ambassador to the United Nations Development Program. He will 
	also serve on the Advisory Council for TeleSUR, "Television of 
	the South", a pan-Latin American television network based in 
	Caracas, Venezuela. It will begin broadcasting on July 24, 2005.
	He is probably best known for his role as Los Angeles police Sgt.
	Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon movie series, and his role as
	the abusive husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in The 
	Color Purple. Among many awards, he will win five NAACP Image 
	Awards, for his achievements as a Black actor. He will join the
	ranks of actors, such as Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould, and 
	Robert Mitchum, who will portray Raymond Chandler's private eye 
	detective Philip Marlowe in the episode 'Red Wind' of the 
	Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels. He will make his
	directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override 
	in 1994.

1961 - Milton A. Francis, the first African American specialist in 
	genitourinary diseases, joins the ancestors.

1963 - World Heavyweight Champion, Sonny Liston, hangs on to his 
	boxing title, by knocking out challenger, Floyd Patterson, in 
	the first round of a bout in Las Vegas, Nevada.

______________________________________________________________
           Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj
              "The TRUTH shall make you free"

   E-mail:   <[log in to unmask]>
   Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html
             http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm
   _____________________________________________________________
   To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
   In the E-mail body place:  Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
   ______________________________________________________________
   Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1998 - 2006,
   All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
   The Black Agenda.