*                   Today in Black History - August 16               *

1890 - Alexander Clark, journalist and lawyer, is named minister to
        Liberia.

1922 - Author and journalist, Louis Lomax is born.

1938 - Revolutionary blues singer Robert L. Johnson joins the ancestors
        after a mysterious death in Greenwood, Mississippi. A revival of
        interest in his music will occur in the 1990's when a boxed set
        of 41 of his recordings is issued to critical and popular acclaim.

1952 - Reginald VelJohnson is born.  He will become an actor and will
        be best known for his role as Carl Winslow in the TV series
        "Family Matters" and his role as a policeman in the movie
        "Die Hard."

1958 - Angela Bassett is born.  She will become an actress/singer and
        will star in the movies "Malcolm X," "What's Love Got to Do
        With It," "Waiting To Exhale," and "How Stella Got Her Groove
        Back."

1961 - Christian Okoye is born in Nigeria.  He will become a professional
        football player with the Kansas City Chiefs, as a running back.
        He will amass 4,897 yards from 1987-1992.  He will be UP's AFL
        offensive player of the year in 1989.

1963 - Independence is restored to the Dominican Republic.

1970 - Activist Angela Davis is named in a federal warrant issued in
        connection with George Jackson's attempted escape from San
        Quentin prison.

1972 - A Methodist clergyman of African descent from Dominica, West Indies,
        Rev. Philip A. Potter, 51, is named General Secretary of the
        World Council of Churches.  Serving until 1984, Potter will give
        strong spiritual guidance to the work of the WCC.

1987 - Charles Wesley joins the ancestors in Washington, DC at the age of
        95.  Noted historian and African American college president, he
        authored over a dozen books on African American life, including
        "The Negro in the Americas," "The Quest for Equality," "Negro
        Labor in the U.S. 1850-1925," "Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom,"
        and "The History of the National Association of Colored Women's
        Clubs, published when he was 92 years old.

1988 - Jailed Black South African nationalist Nelson Mandela, is stricken
        with tuberculosis.

2003 - Idi Amin, former Ugandan dictator, joins the ancestors in Saudi
        Arabia,  at the age of 80 after succumbing to multiple organ failure.

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