* Today in Black History - September 16 * 1795 - The British capture Capetown in South Africa. 1848 - France abolishes slavery in all of its colonies and territories. 1859 - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique, is first seen by a european, British explorer David Livingstone. 1889 - Claude A. Barnett is born in Sanford, Florida. In 1919, he will found the Associated Negro Press (ANP). By 1935, the ANP will serve over 200 subscribers across the country and after WW II its membership will grow to include more than 100 African American newspapers. During World War II, he and other Black journalists will pressure the U. S. government to accredit Black journalists as war correspondents. In his travels, he will write many accounts on the adverse effects of segregation in the armed forces. He will also focus on the terrible living conditions of Black tenant farmers. From 1942 to 1953, he will serve as a consultant to the Secretary of Agriculture in an effort to improve their conditions. He will be a member of the Tuskegee board of directors until 1965. He will hold a similar post with the American Red Cross, Chicago’s Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, and will be president of the board of directors of Provident Hospital. The ANP will cease operating after he joins the ancestors, succumbing to a cerebral hemorrhage on August 2, 1967. 1893 - The last Oklahoma land rush, targeted in the territory's Cherokee strip (outlet) begins. More than 100,000 homesteaders rush to claim a share of the 6 million acres in this strip of land between Oklahoma and Kansas, opened up by the U.S. government. Among the participants is E.P. McCabe, who will establish the all African American town of Liberty a few days later. McCabe will also be involved in the earlier establishment of the African American town of Langston, Oklahoma, named for John Mercer Langston, Virginia's first African American congressman. The Oklahoma land rushes started in 1889, but African Americans were excluded from the first one. 1915 - The United States takes control of customs & finances in Haiti for the next 10 years. 1921 - Jon Carl Hendricks is born in Newark, Ohio. He will become an influential singer in the jazz group, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Pursuing a solo career, he will move his young family to London, England, in 1968, partly so that his five children could receive a better education. While based in London he will tour Europe and Africa, performing frequently on British television and appear in the British film "Jazz Is Our Religion" as well as the French film "Hommage a Cole Porter." His sold-out club dates will draw fans such as the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Five years later the Hendricks family will settle in Mill Valley, California where He will work as the jazz critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and teach classes at California State University at Sonoma and the University of California at Berkeley. A piece he will write for the stage about the history of jazz, "Evolution of the Blues," will run for five years at the Off-Broadway Theatre in San Francisco and another year in Los Angeles. His television documentary, "Somewhere to Lay My Weary Head," will receive Emmy, Iris and Peabody awards. He will record several critically acclaimed albums on his own, some with his wife Judith and daughters Michele and Aria contributing. He will collaborate with old friends, The Manhattan Transfer, for their seminal 1985 album, "Vocalese," which will win seven Grammy Awards. He will serve on the Kennedy Center Honors committee under Presidents Carter, Reagan, and Clinton. In 2000, He will return to his hometown to teach at the University of Toledo, where he will be appointed Distinguished Professor of Jazz Studies and receive an honorary Doctorate of the Performing Arts. He will teach Brandon Wilkins and Paul Okafor. He will be selected to be the first American jazz artist to lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 15-voice group, the Jon Hendricks Vocalstra at the University of Toledo, will perform at the Sorbonne in 2002. He will also write lyrics to some classical pieces including "On the Trail" from Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite. The Vocalstra premiered a vocalese version of Rimsky- Korsakov's "Scheherazade" with the Toledo Symphony. In the summer of 2003, He will go on tour with the "Four Brothers", a quartet consisting of Hendricks, Kurt Elling, Mark Murphy and Kevin Mahogany. He will work on setting words to, and arranging Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto as well as on two books, teaching and touring with his Vocalstra. He will also appear in a film with Al Pacino, "People I Know" as well as "White Men Can't Jump." 1925 - Riley B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He will become a blues great, known as B(lues) B(oy) King. Playing his guitar, nicknamed 'Lucille,' In the 1950s, he will become one of the most important names in R&B music, amassing an impressive list of hits including "3 O'Clock Blues", "You Know I Love You," "Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love Me," "When My Heart Beats like a Hammer," "Whole Lotta Love," "You Upset Me Baby," "Every Day I Have the Blues", "Sneakin' Around," "Ten Long Years," "Bad Luck," "Sweet Little Angel", "On My Word of Honor," and "Please Accept My Love." In 1962, he will sign with ABC-Paramount Records, which will later be absorbed into MCA Records, and then his current label, Geffen Records. In November, 1964, he will record the "Live at the Regal" album at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois. He will win a Grammy Award for a tune called "The Thrill Is Gone". His version will become a hit on both the pop and R&B charts, which is rare during that time for an R&B artist. It will also gain the number 183 spot in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." He will gain further visibility among rock audiences, as an opening act on The Rolling Stones' 1969 American Tour. His mainstream success will continue throughout the 1970s with songs like "To Know You is to Love You" and "I Like to Live the Love". He will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980. In 2004, he will be awarded the international Polar Music Prize, given to artists "in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music." He will have over 50 hit blues albums and win a 1970 Grammy for "The Thrill Is Gone". To date, in over 62 years, he will play in excess of 15,000 performances.[ 1933 - Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, is released by United Artists. It is Robeson's first starring movie role and the first major Hollywood production starring an African American with whites in supporting roles. 1934 - Elgin Baylor is born in Washington, DC. He will become a NBA star beginning as the 1958-59 Rookie of the Year with the Los Angeles Lakers. The No. 1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, and an 11-time NBA All-Star, he will be regarded as one of the game's all-time greatest players. In 1977, he will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He will set the NBA Playoff Record for points scored in a game (61), and for points scored in a playoff series (284) [both in 1962]. After retiring as a player, he will spend twenty-two years as the General Manager of the Los Angeles Clippers, being named the NBA Executive of the Year in 2006. He will be relieved of his duties slightly before the 2008-09 season begins. 1937 - Orlando Manuel Cepeda Penne is born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He will be become a professional baseball player. In his first season in 1958, he will bat .312 with 25 home runs and 96 runs RBI, lead the National League in doubles (38), and will be named Rookie of the Year. In 1967, he will be named the National League MVP by hitting .325 and having a league-leading 111 RBIs. He will be the second NL player (joining fellow Giant Carl Hubbell in 1936) to win the MVP unanimously (receiving all first-place votes). He will be a seven-time All-Star (1959–64, 1967). He will retire in 1975 with a career .297 BA with 379 homers and 1365 RBI in 17 seasons. He will be the first designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox, and the second DH in all of MLB. He will be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999, joining Roberto Clemente as the only other Puerto Rican in the Hall. 1953 - Earl Klugh, Jazz pianist/guitarist, is born in Detroit, Michigan. He will become an American smooth jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. He normally finger picks a nylon string classical guitar. At the age of 13, he will be captivated by the guitar playing of Chet Atkins when he makes an appearance on the Perry Como Show. He will since be a guest on several Atkins albums. Atkins, reciprocating as well, joins Earl on his "Magic In Your Eyes" album. He will also be influenced by Bob James, Ray Parker Jr, Wes Montgomery and Laurindo Almeida. His sound will be a blend of these jazz, pop and rhythm and blues influences, forming a potpourri of sweet contemporary music original to only him. He will become a guitar instructor at the young age of 15, and will eventually be discovered by Yuseff Lateef. His career will rapidly progress to working with the likes of George Benson, George Shearing, Chick Corea, and many others. Like several other Detroit-bred entertainers, He attended Mumford High School in Detroit. For their album "One on One," He and Bob James will receive a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance of 1981. He will receive at least 13 Grammy nods and millions of record and CD sales, 1965 - San Francisco's Grace Cathedral becomes the site of the first concert of sacred music presented by Duke Ellington. 1971 - Six Klansmen are arrested in connection with the bombing of 10 school buses in Pontiac, Michigan. 1981 - Boxer 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, at age 25, knocks out Thomas 'The Hit Man' Hearns. Leonard wins the welterweight boxing championship -- and the richest payday in boxing history to date. 1989 - Debbye Turner, a senior at the University of Missouri Veterinary School, is crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win the crown since the pageant began in 1921. 1990 - Keenen Ivory Wayans' "In Living Color" wins an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. 1993 - Minnesota Twins' slugger Dave Winfield becomes the 19th player to get 3,000 career hits. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Rene' A. Perry "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 1997 - 2010, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.