* Today in Black History - February 10 * ************************************************************ "Once a year we go through the charade of February being 'Black History Month.' Black History Month needs to be a 12-MONTH THING. When we all learn about our history, about how much we've accomplished while being handicapped with RACISM, it can only inspire us to greater heights, knowing we're on the giant shoulders of our ANCESTORS." Subscribe to the Munirah Chronicle and receive Black Facts every day of the year. To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ************************************************************ 1868 - Republican conservatives draft a new constitution which concentrates political power in the hands of the governor and limits the impact of the Black vote. This is made possible by Conservatives, aided by military forces, who seize the convention hall and establish control over the reconstruction process in Florida. 1927 - Mary Leontyne Violet Price is born in Laurel, Mississippi. She will be acclaimed as one of the world's greatest operatic talents. She will amass many operatic firsts, one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera, being the first African American to sing opera on network television and the first African American to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Among her honors will be the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, three Emmys, and Kennedy Center Honors. After her retirement from the opera stage in 1985, she will continue to appear in recitals and orchestral concerts until 1997. Among her many honors and awards are the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), the Spingarn Medal (1965), the Kennedy Center Honors (1980), the National Medal of Arts (1985), the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1986), numerous honorary degrees, and 19 Grammy Awards for operatic and song recitals and full operas, and a Lifetime Achievement Award, more than any other classical singer. In October 2008, she was among the first recipients of the Opera Honors by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Boston Conservatory at Berklee. 1939 - Roberta Cleopatra Flack is born in Black Mountain (Asheville), North Carolina. She will begin her professional singing career in Washington, DC. She will be the first to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year two consecutive times. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" won at the 1974 Grammys. She will remain the only solo artist to have accomplished this feat, and only U2, who did it in 2001 with "Beautiful Day" and in 2002 with "Walk On", has done it since. 1942 - Mary Lovelace O'Neal is born in Jackson, Mississippi. Educated at Howard and Columbia universities, she will become a professor of fine arts and head of the Art Department at University of California at Berkeley. Academia will allow her the freedom to become a painter who will exhibit her work in museums in the United States, Morocco, and Chile. 1943 - Eta Phi Beta, the national business and professional sorority, is incorporated in Detroit, Michigan. It will have chapters throughout the United States and number among its members civil rights activist Daisy Bates and artist Margaret T. Burroughs. 1945 - The United States, Russia, Great Britain, and France approve a peace treaty with Italy, under which Italy renounces all rights and claims to Ethiopia and Eritrea. 1945 - The Chicago Defender reports that over a quarter of a million African Americans migrated to California during the years 1942 and 1943. As the percentage of African Americans in California increases from 1 1/2% to more than 10% of the total population, so does the practice of racial segregation. 1971 - Bill White becomes the first African American major league baseball announcer when he begins announcing for the New York Yankees. 1989 - Ronald H. Brown, who had served as Jesse Jackson's campaign manager, becomes chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the first African American to hold the position in either party. 1989 - Tony Robinson, originally from Jamaica, becomes Nottingham's (Great Britain) first sheriff of African descent. 1990 - South African President, Frederik Willem de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be set free on February 11th after 27 years in prison. 1992 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots," and "Autobiography of Malcolm X," joins the ancestors while on a lecture tour in Seattle, Washington at the age of 70. 1992 - Mike Tyson is convicted in Indianapolis, Indiana of raping a contestant in the Miss Black America competition (Desiree Washington) and sentenced to six years in an Indiana prison. 1997 - O.J. Simpson is found liable for the wrongful death of his ex- wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The civil court jury will award a judgement of $33.5 Million against him. 1998 - Dr. David Satcher is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become Surgeon General. 2013 - Nigeria defeats Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm _____________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2016, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.