*              Today in Black History - October 28             *

1862 - The First Kansas Colored Volunteers, while greatly outnumbered, 
	repulse and drive off a rebel force at Island Mound, Missouri. 
	This is the first engagement for African American troops in 
	the Civil War.

1873 - Patrick Healy becomes president of Georgetown University, 
	the oldest Catholic University in the United States and 
	becomes the first African American president of a 
	predominantly white university in the United States.  

1914 - Omega Psi Phi fraternity is incorporated. It is founded in 
	1911 by three students, Frank Coleman, Oscar J. Cooper and 
	Edgar A. Love and their faculty adviser, Ernest Everett 
	Just. It will be the first predominantly African American 
	fraternity to be founded at a historically black university. 
	The fraternity will grow to have over 250,000 members in 
	chapters throughout the United States and abroad. 

1927 - Clementine Dinah Bullock is born in Uxbridge, Middlesex,
	England. She will become a jazz and pop singer and an actress, 
	known for her scat singing and for her vocal range and by the
	name Cleo Laine. She will be the only female performer to have 
	received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical 
	music categories. She is the widow of jazz composer Sir John 
	Dankworth. She will not take up singing professionally until 
	her mid-twenties. Her early influences as a singer were Ella 
	Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland and Lena Horne. She 
	will audition successfully, at the age of 24, for John 
	Dankworth's small group, the Dankworth Seven, and later his 
	orchestra, with which she will performed until 1958. She and 
	Dankworth will marry that year in secret at Hampstead Register 
	Office. She will play the lead in a new play at London's Royal 
	Court Theatre, home of the new wave of playwrights of the 
	1950s such as John Osborne and Harold Pinter. This will lead 
	to other stage performances, such as the musical Valmouth in 
	1959, the play A Time to Laugh (with Robert Morley and Ruth 
	Gordon) in 1962, Boots With Strawberry Jam (with John Neville) 
	in 1968, and eventually to her role as Julie La Verne in Wendy 
	Toye's production of Show Boat at the Adelphi Theatre in 
	London in 1971. Show Boat will have its longest run to date in 
	that London season with 910 performances staged. During this 
	period, she will have two major recording successes. "You'll 
	Answer to Me" will reach the British Top 10 while she was 
	"prima donna" in the 1961 Edinburgh Festival production of 
	Kurt Weill's opera/ballet The Seven Deadly Sins, directed and 
	choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan. In 1964 her Shakespeare 
	and All that Jazz album with Dankworth will be well received. 
	She and Dankworth will found the Stables theatre in 1970 in 
	what was the old stables block in the grounds of their home. 
	It was an immediate success, with 47 concerts given in the 
	first year. Her international activities will begin in 1972, 
	with a successful first tour of Australia. Shortly afterwards, 
	her career in the United States will be launched with a 
	concert at New York's Lincoln Center, followed in 1973 by the 
	first of many Carnegie Hall appearances. Coast-to-coast tours 
	of the US and Canada will soon follow, and with them a 
	succession of record albums and television appearances, 
	including The Muppet Show in 1977. This will lead, after 
	several nominations, to her first Grammy award, in 
	recognition of the live recording of her 1983 Carnegie 
	concert. She will continue to tour periodically, including 
	in Australia in 2005. She will collaborate with James Galway, 
	Nigel Kennedy, Julian Lloyd Webber and John Williams. Other 
	important recordings during that time will be duet albums 
	with Ray Charles (Porgy and Bess) as well as Arnold 
	Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, for which she will receive a 
	Grammy Award nomination. She will be famed for not only her 
	interpretative style, but also her almost-four-octave range 
	and vocal adaptability. As well as hitting deep soulful 
	notes, her scatting and top notes have become her signature. 
	Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is 
	able to produce a G above high C. Derek Jewel of the Sunday 
	Times will dub her "quite simply the best singer in the 
	world." 

1937 - Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens is born in Brooklyn, New
	York. He will become a professional basketball player for 
	the St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail
	Blazers and Seattle Supersonics. He will also coach every
	team for which he played. In 1995, he will surpass Red
	Auerbach as the NBA winningest coach, with his 939th 
	victory. On March 1, 1996, he will become the first coach 
	to win 1,000 regular season games. He and John Wooden will 
	become the only two persons to be elected to the Basketball
	Hall of Fame as a player and coach.

1948 - Telma Louise Hopkins is born in Louisville, Kentucky. She will
	become a member of the 1970's group, "Tony Orlando and Dawn",
	and later a television actress. She will be best known for 
	her roles in "Bosom Buddies," "Gimme a Break!," "Family 
	Matters," "Getting By," and "Half & Half."

1965 - Earl Bostic, popular jazz alto saxophonist and winner of the
	1959 Playboy Jazz poll, joins the ancestors in Rochester, 
	New York. The Tulsa, Oklahoma native had begun his career 
	in the Midwest and, after studying music and playing with 
	bands in the South, landed with Lionel Hampton's big band,
	among others. 

1973 - Elmore Smith of the Los Angeles Lakers blocks 17 shots in a 
	game to establish a NBA record.

1981 - Edward M. McIntyre is elected as the first African American 
	mayor of Augusta, Georgia.

1987 - Christopher Edwin Cooksey is born in Long Beach, California.
	He will become a singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, 
	and photographer. He will be best known as Frank Ocean. He
	will begin his musical career as a ghostwriter, prior to 
	joining hip hop collective Odd Future in 2010, and the 
	following year releasing Nostalgia, Ultra, his debut mixtape.
	The mixtape will be a critical success and will generate the 
	single "Novacane", which will peak at number 82 on the 
	Billboard Hot 100 and will later be certified platinum. He
	will subsequently secure a recording contract with Def Jam 
	Recordings in 2012. He will release his debut studio album, 
	Channel Orange, in July 2012; it will debut at number two 
	on the Billboard 200 and will soon be certified platinum. 
	The album will receive universal acclaim from critics and 
	will win him his first Grammy Award, for Best Urban 
	Contemporary Album. The album will contain the singles 
	"Thinkin Bout You", "Pyramids" and "Sweet Life", with the 
	former peaking inside the top 40 in the US and gaining 
	him a nomination for Record of the Year at the 55th Annual 
	Grammy Awards. His second album, Blonde, will be released 
	in 2016 and will be subject to controversy after he 
	endures protracted contract disputes with Def Jam, which 
	will lead to the album suffering repeated delays. In order 
	to fulfill his contract with Def Jam, he will release the 
	visual project Endless exclusively on Apple Music the day 
	before releasing Blonde. Released independently, Blonde 
	will debut at number one in several countries and will 
	also be highly acclaimed by critics. The album will 
	contain the single "Nikes" and will be eventually 
	certified platinum. In 2017, he will be featured on the 
	Calvin Harris single "Slide", opposite Migos; it will
	become his highest charting song in the US, peaking at 
	number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. He will be known 
	for his idiosyncratic musical style, introspective and 
	elliptical songwriting, unconventional production 
	techniques, and wide vocal range. Music critics will 
	credit him with revitalizing R&B, with his distinctive 
	sound and style influencing numerous artists of various 
	music genres.

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