* Today in Black History - June 12 *
1826 - Sarah Parker Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts. She will
become a major abolitionist. She will also be an African
American physician, lecturer and agent of the American
Anti-Slavery Society. She will deliver speeches throughout
the United States on the horrors of slavery. Because of her
eloquence, she will be chosen to travel to England to gather
support for the abolitionist cause in the United States and,
after the American Civil War starts, for support of the
Union Army and the Union blockade of the Confederacy. She
is the sister of orator Charles Lenox Remond. She will join
the ancestors on December 13, 1894.
1840 - The World's Anti-Slavery Convention convenes in London, England.
Among those in attendance will be African American Charles
Remond, who will refuse to be seated at the meeting when he
and the other delegates learn that women are being segregated
in the gallery.
1876 - A monument is dedicated to Richard Allen in Philadelphia's
Fairmount Park. It is the first known monument erected by
African Americans to honor one of their heroes.
1904 - William Hendrick Foster is born in Calvert, Texas. He will
become a star in the Negro Baseball League. He will play
for the Chicago American Giants from 1923-1937. A left-hander,
he will win 137 games, more than any other left-handed
pitcher. Throughout his career, he will regularly participate
in post-season play in the California Winter League and with
barnstorming squads of Negro Leagues all-stars. In exhibition
contests against major league stars, he will post a .600+ win
percentage. After his retirement from baseball, he will
pursue various coaching positions, ultimately landing the
post of head baseball coach and dean of men at his alma mater,
Alcorn College in Mississippi. He will join the ancestors on
September 16, 1978. He will be inducted into the Baseball
Hall Of Fame in 1996.
1931 - Barbara Hillary is born in New York City, New York. She will
become a nurse, publisher, adventurer, and inspirational speaker.
She will attend the New School University, from which she will
earn bachelor's and master's degrees in gerontology. Following
her education, she will become a nurse as well as founding the
Arverne Action Association and the Peninsula Magazine. On April
23, 2007 at the age of 75, she will become the first known Black
woman to reach the North Pole. She will reach the South Pole on
January 6, 2011 at the age of 79, becoming the first African
American woman on record to make it there and simultaneously the
first Black woman to reach both poles. Following her ventures to
the North and South poles she will become an inspirational
speaker, addressing organizations such as the National
Organization for Women. Having survived breast cancer in her 20s
and lung cancer in her 60s, her health will begin to decline in
2019. After being admitted to a hospital in Far Rockaway, New
York, she will join the ancestors on November 23, 2019 at the
age of 88.
1935 - Ella Fitzgerald records her first record for Brunswick Records.
The songs on the record were "Love and Kisses" and "I'll Chase
the Blues Away". She is featured with Chick Webb and his band.
Ella is 17 years old at the time and will conduct the Webb
band for three years after he joins the ancestors in 1939.
1961 - The Hinds County, Mississippi Board of Supervisors announces
that more than one hundred "Freedom Riders" had been arrested.
1962 - Eamonn Roderique Walker is born in London, England. He will be a
Caribbean-British film, television and theatre actor, best known
for his roles in the series "Oz" and "Chicago Fire." He will come
from a strong background in dance. He will attend the "New York
Film Academy." Following his graduation, he will start his acting
career with stage in London, in the early 80s. In 1985, he will
make his on-screen acting debut with the TV show "Dempsey and
Makepeace." Following his debut, he will appear in many English
TV series such as "Dramarama," "In Sickness and in Health," and
"Tales of the Unexpected." By the early 90s, he will venture into
films, with "Young Soul Rebels" and "Shopping." It will be the
1997 series "Oz" which turns out to be a big career breakthrough
for him. He will receive many awards for his performance in the
series, and its success will pave the way for more lucrative
offers. In 2000, he will star alongside Bruce Willis in
"Unbreakable." He will reach the peak of success with his leading
role in the 2012 series "Chicago Fire."
1963 - Medgar Evers, field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP, joins
the ancestors after being assassinated in the driveway outside
his home in Jackson, Mississippi. The African American civil
rights leader is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De
La Beckwith. During World War II, Evers volunteered for the
U.S. Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952,
he joined the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP, he
traveled through his home state encouraging poor African
Americans to register to vote and recruiting them into the
civil rights movement. He was instrumental in getting witnesses
and evidence for the Emmitt Till murder case, which brought
national attention to the plight of African Americans in the
South. He will be widely mourned throughout the civil rights
movement and posthumously receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.
1963 - Civil rights group demonstrates at Harlem construction sites to
protest discrimination in the building trade unions.
1963 - Temitope Balogun Joshua is born in Arigidi, Nigeria. Commonly
referred to as T. B. Joshua, he will become a pastor, televangelist
and philanthropist. He will be the leader and founder of The
Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), a Christian organisation
that runs the Emmanuel TV television station from Lagos, Nigeria.
He will be known for his popularity across Africa and Latin America
and his social media presence with 3,500,000 fans on Facebook. His
YouTube channel, Emmanuel TV, will have over 1,000,000 YouTube
subscribers and be the world's most viewed Christian ministry on
the platform. Described as the "Oprah of evangelism" and "YouTube's
most popular Pastor", Emmanuel TV will be among the world's largest
Christian television networks. He will be awarded various accolades,
notably receiving the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic
(OFR) by the Nigerian government in 2008 and being voted the Yoruba
man of the decade by Pan-Yoruba media outlet Irohin-Odua. He will be
called one of Africa's 50 most influential people by Pan-African
magazines, The Africa Report and New African Magazine. As of 2011,
according to Forbes, he will be Nigeria's third-richest pastor,
although the claim will be immediately denied in a statement by the
church. He will be known to be controversial, and be even 'Blacklisted'
by the government of Cameroon in 2010.
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Virginia miscegenation law
(marriage or cohabitation between whites and non-whites). This
decision establishes that no state law can prohibit interracial
marriages.
1967 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Three hundred persons are arrested, and the National
Guard is mobilized.
1971 - Mark Jerrold Henry is born in Silsbee, Texas. He will become a powerlifter,
Olympic weightlifter, strongman, and retired professional wrestler, who
will be signed to WWE under a Legends contract. He will work backstage as
a producer. He will be a two-time Olympian (1992 and 1996) and a gold,
silver, and bronze medalist at the Pan American Games in 1995. As a
powerlifter, he will be WDFPF World Champion (1995) and a two-time U.S.
National Champion (1995 and 1997) as well as an all-time raw world record
holder in the squat and deadlift. To date, he will hold the WDFPF world
records in the squat, deadlift and total and the USAPL American record in
the deadlift since 1995. He will be credited for the biggest raw squat and
raw powerlifting total ever performed by a drug tested athlete, regardless
of weight class, as well as the greatest raw deadlift by an American citizen.
In weightlifting, he will be a three-time U.S. National Weightlifting
Champion (1993, 1994, 1996), an American Open winner (1992), a two-time U.S.
Olympic Festival Champion (1993 and 1994) and a NACAC champion (1996). He
will hold all three Senior US American weightlifting records of 1993�1997.
In 2002, he will win the first annual Arnold Strongman Classic. Since joining
the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in 1996, he will become a one-time
WWF European Champion and a two-time world champion, having held the ECW
Championship in 2008, and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship in 2011. In
April, 2018 it will be announced that he would be inducted into the WWE Hall
of Fame Class of 2018.
1972 - The National Black MBA Association is incorporated. An organization of over
2,000 minority holders of advanced business degrees, the organization's
mission is to assist the entry of interested minorities into the business
community.
1977 - Richard Ellef Ayoade is born in Whipp's Cross, London, England. He will become
an actor, comedian, writer, director and television presenter. He will be best
known for his role as the socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in
Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (2006-2013), for which he will win the 2014
BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance. He will often work alongside Noel
Fielding, Julian Barratt, Matt Berry, Matthew Holness and Rich Fulcher. He will
serve as the president of Footlights at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He
and Matthew Holness will debut their respective characters Dean Learner and
Garth Marenghi at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2000, bringing the characters
to television with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) and Man to Man with Dean
Learner (2006). He will appear in the comedy shows, The Mighty Boosh (2004�2007)
and Nathan Barley (2005), before gaining exposure and recognition for his role
in The IT Crowd. After directing music videos for Arctic Monkeys, Vampire
Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kasabian, he will write and direct the comedy-drama
film Submarine in 2010, an adaptation of the 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne. He
will co-star in the American science fiction comedy film The Watch in 2012 and
his second film, the Black comedy The Double, premiered in 2013, drawing
inspiration from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella of the same title. He will
frequently appear on panel shows, mostly prominently on The Big Fat Quiz of the
Year, and serve as a team captain on Was It Something I Said? in 2013. He will
present the factual shows Gadget Man (2013-15), its spin-off Travel Man (2015-
present) and the 2017 revival of The Crystal Maze. He will provide his voice to
a number of animated projects, including the films, The Boxtrolls (2014) and
Early Man (2018), and the television shows Strange Hill High (2013-14) and Apple
& Onion (2018-present). He will write two comedic books centring on film,
"Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey" (2014) and "The Grip of Film" (2017).
1977 - Roland Powell is born in Jacksonville, Florida. He will be better known by his
stage name Lil Duval, and become a stand-up comedian and recording artist. In
2005, he will be a finalist on BET's comedy competition series Coming to the
Stage. He will be a series regular to the MTV2 shows Guy Code and Hip Hop
Squares. From 2013 to 2014, he will host the video show Ain't That America on
MTV2. After moving to Atlanta, Powell will start working in the comedic circles,
performing stand-up at the Atlanta staple, Uptown Comedy Corner, which will
lead him to become a regular performer. After performing at the Oakland Bay Area
Competition in 2001, he will be approached by Cedric the Entertainer's road
manager and be invited to perform on the Budweiser tour featuring Cedric and four
additional comedians. He will then be invited by Cedric to perform on his
television special Cedric the Entertainer: Starting Lineup. In 2003, he will
release the underground comedy DVD Dat Boy Funny, which will feature several
upcoming comedians featuring colorful sketch pieces and parodies mocking events
in pop culture. The following year, he will become a regular featured performer
on three seasons of BET's ComicView. He will release his second DVD Put Your
Hands on Me in 2005. That same year, he will appear in Three 6 Mafia's independent
film, Choices II: The Setup, as well as being featured on various skits of the
film's soundtrack. He will star as "Bam-Bam" in the comedy-drama film, School
Dance. He will use the catchphrase "Wat Dat Mouf Do". He will release his first
solo single and music video on April 1, 2014 entitled "Wat Dat Mouf Do?" featuring
Trae tha Truth. In 2018, he will release "Smile (Living My Best Life)" featuring
Snoop Dogg and Ball Greezy, and the single will peak at number 56 on the Billboard
Hot 100.
1981 - Larry Holmes defends his heavyweight boxing title by earning a
third-round TKO (technical knockout) over Leon Spinks in Detroit,
Michigan.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court expands the abilities of white males to
challenge court-approved affirmative action plans, even years
after they take effect.
1993 - Demetrius Harris is born in Washington, D.C. He will become a Hip-hop/Rhythm & Blues
artist known professionally as Mechie and Mechie So Crazy. An original member of
the group 4EY The Future, he and the group will rise to prominence after the success
of their single "Scoot Ova." He will meet Kenny Iko while they were both signed to
4 Ever Young Music Group. They will be featured at the 2015 Global Connections for
Women Foundation Women's Day Awards, providing them a chance to showcase their
talents. He will be popular on Instagram with over 400,000 followers on his
mechiesocrazy account. As a solo artist, he will open for acts like Meek Mill.
1995 - The Supreme Court deals a potentially crippling blow to federal
affirmative action programs, ruling Congress was limited by the
same strict standards as states in offering special help to
minorities.
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