* Today in Black History - November 17 * 1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer, is captured in Boston. His capture leads to the first of the fugitive slave cases which strain relationships between the North and South. Boston abolitionists will raise money to purchase Latimer from his slave owner. 1911 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University. 1945 - Elvin Hayes, NBA star and Basketball Hall of Famer - "The Big E" (San Diego, Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets; 5th on list of most games played in ABA/NBA; University of Houston, All America in 1967 and 1968), is born. 1956 - Fullback Jim Brown of Syracuse University scores 43 pts against Colgate, establishing a NCAA record. 1967 - Ronnie DeVoe, rhythm and blues singer (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe), is born. 1978 - Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations that the bureau's long-term surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based solely on J. Edgar Hoover's "hatred of the civil rights leader" and not on the civil rights leader's alleged communist influences or linkages with radical groups. 1980 - Howard University's WHMM-TV starts broadcasting. It is the first African American-owned public-broadcasting television station. 1990 - Itabari Njeri receives the American Book Award for Outstanding Contribution in American Literature for her book, "Every Good-bye Ain't Gone." Also honored is poet Sonia Sanchez, who receives a lifetime achievement award. 1998 - Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) is elected as chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus. He is the first Southerner to head the group, since it was founded in 1971. He had been first elected to Congress in 1992, the first African American to represent South Carolina since Reconstruction. 1998 - Esther Rolle, the Emmy Award-winning actress, who won acclaim on the hit CBS sitcom "Good Times" as well as on stage and in the movies, joins the ancestors at her home in Los Angeles, at the age of 78. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html> ______________________________________________________________ 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 2001, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.