* Today in Black History - October 8 * 1775 - A council of general officers decides to bar slaves and free African Americans from serving in the Continental Army. 1930 - Faith Ringgold is born in New York City. She will become a multimedia artist whose paintings, face masks, fabric and soft sculptures, and quilts will earn her praise for her reaffirmation of African American women's values and unique perspective. 1941 - Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is born in Greenville, South Carolina. He will be a civil rights leader and founder of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in 1971, an organization that will focus attention on the economic disparity between whites and African Americans. In 1988, he will be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. 1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell is born. He will become a Rhythm and Blues singer and will become the leader of his own group, "Kool & the Gang." 1963 - The Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya. 1969 - Police officers and African Americans exchange sniper fire on Chicago's West Side. One youth is killed and nine policemen are injured. 1992 - The Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to West Indies poet, Derek Walcott. 1993 - The U.N. General Assembly lifted almost all its remaining economic sanctions against South Africa, begun in the 1960s and built up in subsequent years because of Pretoria's policy of racial apartheid. 1999 - Laila Ali, the 21-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali, makes her professional boxing debut by knocking out opponent April Fowler 31 seconds after the opening bell in Verona, New York. 2009 - Abu Talib, bluesman who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, joins the ancestors in Lancaster, California after succumbing to cancer. ______________________________________________________________ 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.