* Today in Black History - June 13 *
1774 - Rhode Island prohibits the importation of slaves, the
first state to do so.
1868 - Ex-slave Oscar T. Dunn is installed as Lieutenant
Governor of Louisiana. It is the highest executive
office held by an African American at that time.
1870 - Richard T. Greener becomes the first African American
to graduate from Harvard University.
1893 - T.W. Stewart patents a mop.
1937 - Eleanor Holmes (later Norton) is born in Washington,
D.C. A graduate of the Yale University School of Law,
Norton will become chairperson of the New York City
Commission on Human Rights, and a Georgetown University
law professor before being elected a non-voting delegate
to Congress representing the District of Columbia. As a
non-voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives,
she may serve on committees as well as speak on the House
floor; however, she is not permitted to vote on the final
passage of any legislation.
1967 - President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals
Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring
Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August
30, after a heated debate, the Senate will confirm
Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. Two days
later, he will be sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren,
making him the first African American in history to sit
on America's highest court.
1970 - Cheryl Elizabeth Gamble is born in The Bronx, New York. She
will be better known by her stage name Coko. She will
become a Rhythm & Blues recording artist and television
personality. She will be best known as the lead singer of
the Rhythm & Blues vocal trio, Sisters With Voices (SWV).
Aside from her Rhythm & Blues career, she will also have a
solo gospel career. She will begin her recording career as
a choir member in Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship Crusade
Choir. From 1990 to 1998, she will sing with the platinum
recording group, Sisters With Voices (SWV). Collectively,
the female trio will release five albums.
1977 - The convicted assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray, is recaptured following
his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
1984 - Luke James Boyd is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will
become a singer, songwriter and actor. He will begin his
musical career singing background for Rhythm & Blues artist
Tyrese, where he will meet and was soon be mentored for
several years by Super producers The Underdogs with an
acquaintance, Quentin, under Luke & Q. He will be signed
directly to J Records by Clive Davis himself and will later
write songs for musicians such as Chris Brown, Britney Spears
and Justin Bieber. Under the management of record producer
Danja, he will release his first mixtape, #Luke, in 2011. The
mixtape's critically acclaimed single "I Want You" will earn
him a Best Rhythm & Blues Performance nomination at the 56th
Annual Grammy Awards. Like the first project, he will release
his second mixtape, Whispers in the Dark, as a free music
download in 2012. His self-titled debut studio album will be
released on September 23, 2014. In 2017, he will star as
Rhythm & Blues singer Johnny Gill in the anticipated TV biopic
of Rhythm & Blues sextet New Edition in BET's The New Edition
Story. On February 21, 2017, he will announce on Twitter the
title of his second album will be 'JOY'.
1985 - De'Mario Monte Thornton is born in Cleveland, Ohio. Known as Raz-B,
he will become a singer and actor and a founding member of Rhythm
& Blues boy band B2K as a teen. The release of B2K's album,
Pandemonium!, and an accompanying tour, finished the year for him
that concluded with the release of the group's first feature film,
"You Got Served." Distributed through his own production company,
RazBeatz Entertainment, he will release his first single, Fire in
May 2007. Fire will officially debut on the Billboard charts (the
week of 5/12/07) on the Hot Rhythm & Blues/Hip-Hop Singles Sales
charts debuting at #2 and also hitting the Billboard Hot Singles
Sales charts at #2. There will be no promotion behind the single as
it debuted because he was pushing this album on an independent level.
On March 19, 2010, he will release his first mixtape entitled Boy 2
King. In 2011, Elayne Rivers, his longtime publicist, will announce
that he would be going on tour in China. Throughout the tour, he
performed shows in various parts of China.
1989 - Hassan Niam Whiteside is born in Gastonia, North Carolina. He
will become a professional basketball player for the Miami
Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He will
play college basketball for the Marshall Thundering Herd
before being drafted in the second round by the Sacramento
Kings in the 2010 NBA draft. After joining Miami in 2014, he
will be named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2016,
when he also leads the NBA in blocks. He will lead the league
in rebounding in 2017.
1989 - Kareem Abdul Jabbar plays in his final NBA game as the
Detroit Pistons sweep the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA
title.
1990 - The United Nations calls on South Africa to free Nelson
Mandela.
1990 - Bernadette Locke becomes the first female on-court men's
basketball coach when she is named assistant coach of the
University of Kentucky men's basketball team.
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