* Today in Black History - November 29 * 1905 - The Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper, begins publication. 1907 - Thomas C. Fleming is born in Jacksonville, Florida. He will become the co-founder of the San Francisco Sun Reporter, an African American weekly newspaper. Mr. Fleming will be active, as a writer for the paper, from its inception in 1944 through the end of the century. He will chronicle his life as an African in America through his series, "Reflections on Black History," published in his 90's, while still active as a journalist with his beloved Sun Reporter. He will join the ancestors on November 21, 2006. 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is born in New Haven, Connecticut. Son of the famed minister of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, the younger Powell will be a civil rights activist, using mass meetings and strikes to force employment reforms. In 1944, Powell will be elected to Congress and begin what will be considered a controversial congressional career. Among his early actions will be the desegregation of eating facilities in the House and an unrelenting fight to end discrimination in the armed forces, employment, housing, and transportation. Later in his career, his questionable activities while chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor will result in his expulsion from Congress, re-election and eventual return to his seat. He will join the ancestors on April 4, 1972. 1915 - William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn is born in Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He will write his first song, "Lush Life," when he is 16 while working as a soda jerk in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He will join Duke Ellington as a co-composer, assistant arranger, and pianist, where he will collaborate with Ellington for 29 years on some of the band's greatest hits. Among Strayhorn's compositions will be "Satin Doll," and "Take the 'A' Train." He will join the ancestors on May 31, 1967 of esophageal cancer at the age of 51. 1935 - Two-term congressman from North Carolina, Henry Plummer Cheatham joins the ancestors in Oxford, North Carolina. He was the only African American member of Congress during the 1890 term. 1943 - David "Dave" Bing is born in Washington, DC. He will be selected No. 2 in the 1966 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons, and play 12 years in the NBA. He will be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1990, and named one of the top 50 basketball players of all time. Upon his retirement from professional basketball, he will found Bing Steel, a processing company that will earn him the National Minority Small Business Person of the Year award in 1984. Soon the business will grow into the multimillion- dollar Detroit-based conglomerate, the Bing Group, one of the largest steel companies in Michigan. He will enter Detroit politics as a Democrat in 2008, announcing his intentions to run for mayor in the city's non-partisan primary to finish the term of Kwame Kilpatrick, who had resigned amid a corruption scandal. After winning the primary, he will then defeat Interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. and be sworn in as mayor in May 2009. Later that year, he will be re-elected to a full term. He will not seek re- election in 2013. 1961 - Freedom Riders are attacked by a white mob at the bus station in McComb, Mississippi. 1964 - Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. is born in Kansas City, Missouri. He will become an actor and star in movies such as "Boogie Nights", "Rebound", "Hamburger Hill", and "Devil in a Blue Dress". He will also be successful on the small screen in "Picket Fences", "Golden Palace" and a variety of guest appearances. He will start a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that will result in the films, "Out of Sight" (1998), "Traffic" (2000) and "Ocean's Eleven" (2001). Other films will include "The Rat Pack" (1998), "Things Behind the Sun" (2001), "Swordfish" (2001), "Crash" (2004), "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), "Ocean's Thirteen" (2007), "Reign Over Me"(2007), "Talk to Me" (2007), "Traitor" (2008), "Iron Man 2" (2010), "The Guard" (2011), "Iron Man 3" (2013) and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015). In 2004, his lead role as Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film "Hotel Rwanda," set during the Rwandan Genocide, will earn him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He will star as Marty Kaan on the Showtime sitcom "House of Lies," for which he will win a Golden Globe Award in 2013. He will also campaign for the end of genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and will co-author, with John Prendergast, a book concerning the issue entitled "Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond." Along with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, he will co-found the "Not On Our Watch Project," an organization focusing global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities. In 2010, he will be named U.N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador. 1989 - The space shuttle Discovery lands after completing a secret mission for the military. The mission was led by Air Force Colonel Frederick D. Gregory, the first African American commander of a space shuttle mission. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. 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