* Today in Black History - January 29 *
1837 - Aleksandr Sereyevich Pushkin, a Russian of African ancestry
who is considered the "Shakespeare of Russian Literature,"
joins the ancestors after being killed in a duel.
Technically one-eighth African or an octoroon, Pushkin was
by all accounts Negroid in his appearance. His verse novel
"Eugene Onegin" and other works are considered classics of
Russian literature and inspiration for later great Russian
writers such as Gogol, Dostoyevski, and Tolstoy.
1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on
slavery which included the admission of California into the
Union as a free state.
1872 - Francis L. Cardoza is elected State Treasurer of South
Carolina.
1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University in
1906, is incorporated in the state of New York.
1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University in
1908, is incorporated in Washington, DC.
1913 - African Americans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation. Major celebrations are held in
Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana and Nashville,
Tennessee. Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey
appropriate money for official celebrations of the event.
1926 - Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman
admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1954 - Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She will
become the first African American woman to host a nationally
syndicated talk show and will be nominated for an Academy
award for best supporting actress in 1985 for her role in
"The Color Purple." Following in the footsteps of Oscar
Micheaux and others, she will also form her own film and
television production company, Harpo Studios, in Chicago,
Illinois. In 1988, Harpo Studios will take over ownership
and production of the "Oprah Winfrey Show," making her the
first African American woman to own and produce her own
national talk show. In 2000, she will be awarded the Spingarn
Medal from the NAACP. In 2004, she will become the first
black person to rank among the 50 most generous Americans
and she will remain among the top 50 until 2010. By 2012,
she will have given away about $400 million to educational
causes. As of 2012, she will have also given over 400
scholarships to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. She
will be the recipient of the first Bob Hope Humanitarian
Award at 2002 Emmy Awards for services to television and film.
To celebrate two decades on national TV, and to thank her
employees for their hard work, she will take her staff and
their families (1065 people in total) on vacation to Hawaii
in the summer of 2006. In 2013, she will donate $12 million
to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American
History and Culture. President Barack Obama will award her
the Presidential Medal of Freedom later that same year.
Forbes' international rich list will list her as the world's
only black billionaire from 2004 to 2006 and as the first
black woman billionaire in world history. As of 2014, she will
overtake former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as the richest self-made
woman in America. As of 2015, she will have a net worth in
excess of US 3.1 billion dollars.
1966 - Charles Mahoney, the first African American delegate to the
United Nations, joins the ancestors at the Henry Ford Hospital
in Detroit, Michigan.
1981 - William R. "Cozy" Cole joins the ancestors in Columbus, Ohio.
A jazz drummer who played with Cab Calloway and Louis
Armstrong, he was known as a versatile percussionist who
played in big bands, comedy jazz groups, and Broadway
musicals. In 1958, his recording of "Topsy" became the only
drum solo to sell more than one million records.
1999 - Ronnie Lott, formally of the San Francisco 49'ers, is elected
to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2019 - James Ingram, the soulful, smooth voice behind Rhythm & Blues hits
like "Just Once" and "I Don't Have The Heart," joins the ancestors
at the age of 66 after succumbing to brain cancer. Ingram, an Ohio
native, got his start as a musician with the band Revelation Funk
and later played keyboards for Ray Charles. He was nominated for
14 Grammy Awards, winning for best male Rhythm & Blues performance
for his song "One Hundred Ways" in 1981 and best Rhythm & Blues
performance for a duo or group in 1984 for "Yah Mo B There." His
duet with Patti Austin, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing," earned
an Oscar nomination for best original song in 1983. Over the course
of his career, he also had successful collaborations with Linda
Ronstadt, Quincy Jones, Barry White and Dolly Parton. He co-wrote
Michael Jackson's hit song "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" with Jones.
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