* Today in Black History - June 11 * 1799 - Richard Allen, the first African American bishop in the United States, is ordained a deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Bishop Francis Asbury. 1915 - Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, the first African American in the United States to be named a judge, joins the ancestors in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 87. 1920 - Hazel Dorothy Scott is born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and raised in New York City from the age of four. A child prodigy, she will enroll at New York City's Juilliard School of Music and star in nightclubs, Broadway shows, and films. A fixture in jazz society uptown and downtown in New York, most notably for her jazz improvisations on familiar classical works, she will be credited with putting the "swing in European classical music." She will be the first African American woman to have her own television show, "The Hazel Scott Show". The show will be short-lived because she will publicly oppose McCarthyism and racial segregation, and the show will be cancelled in 1950 when she is accused of being a Communist sympathizer. She will be married to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. from 1945 to 1956, with whom she will have one child before their divorce. She will join the ancestors after succumbing to cancer at the age of 61 on October 2, 1981 in New York City. 1930 - Charles Rangel is born in New York City. He will defeat Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. for the latter's Congressional seat in the 16th District and serve on the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. He will also chair the Congressional Black Caucus and be a strong advocate in the war on drugs and drug crime as chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. 1937 - Amalya Lyle Kearse is born in Vaux Hall, New Jersey. She will become the first African American woman judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second District of New York. She will earn her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College and her law degree at University of Michigan Law School. She will be active in legal circles, the National Urban League, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. 1937 - Johnny Brown is born in St. Petersburg, Florida. He will become a comedian and will be known for his roles on "Good Times," and "The Jeffersons," "Family Matters," and "Martin." He will be mostly remembered for his chubby physique, wide ingratiating smile, mobile facial expressions, and easy pleasant joking style. HeBwill be most famous, however, for his role as building superintendent "Nathan Bookman" on the 1970s CBS sitcom, "Good Times." Bookman was often the brunt of fat jokes via the show's main character "J. J. Evans" (Jimmie Walker). He will portray Bookman until the series is cancelled in 1979. 1951 - Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal. 1963 - Vivian Malone and James Hood, accompanied by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, attempt to register at the University of Alabama. They are met by Governor George Wallace, who bodily blocks their entrance to a campus building. When National Guardsmen return later in the day with Malone and Hood to enter the building, Wallace steps aside. 1964 - In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly attempting to sabotage the white South African government. 1967 - A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida. The Florida National Guard is mobilized to suppress the violence. 1972 - Hank Aaron, of the Atlanta Braves, ties Gil Hodges of the Dodgers for the National League record for the most grand- slam home runs in a career, with 14. The Braves will beat the Philadelphia Phillies 15-3. 1978 - Joseph Freeman Jr. becomes the first African American priest in the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). 1982 - Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney to retain the WBC heavyweight crown. 1989 - Maya April Moore is born in Jefferson City, Missouri. She will become a professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Naming her their inaugural Performer of the Year in 2017, Sports Illustrated will call Moore the greatest player in the history of women's basketball. In high school, she will be the National Gatorade Player of the Year, the Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year, and a McDonald's All-American. She will play forward for the UConn women's basketball team, and win back to back national championships in 2009 and 2010. She will be selected as the John Wooden Award winner in 2009 after leading Connecticut to the undefeated national championship. The following season, she will lead Connecticut to its second straight national championship and continue its overall undefeated streak at 78; in the 2010-11 season, she will lead the Huskies in extending that streak to an NCAA both-gender record (all divisions) of 90. That season, she will become the first female basketball player to sign with Jordan Brand. After the 2017 season, her win-loss record in the U.S. since high school will be 497-78. She will be the first overall pick in the 2011 WNBA Draft, and join a Minnesota Lynx team that already features all-star caliber players in Seimone Augustus, Rebekkah Brunson and Lindsay Whalen. Since 2011, she will continue to excel, both with the Lynx and with overseas teams in Europe and China. She will win four WNBA championships (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), WNBA Most Valuable Player Award (2014), WNBA Finals MVP Award (2013), three WNBA All-Star Game MVPs (2015, 2017, 2018), two Olympic gold medals, (2012, 2016), scoring title (2014), and the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award (2011). She will also be selected to four WNBA All-Star teams and three All- WNBA teams. In 2012, she will win both the Spanish league title and EuroLeague title playing for Ros Casares Valencia. From 2013 to 2015, she will also win the Chinese league title every year. 1989 - Brittany Bullock is born in Houston, Texas. She will become a rapper and singer known as Just Brittany. She will sign with Cash Money Records following the success of her 2009 single "Call Me for That Good." Her mixtape "Queen of H Town," released in 2012, will feature big name rappers like Slim Thug and Z-Ro. She will collaborate with fellow Houston rapper Lil Keke on the song "H-Town Streets." 1991 - Kayshon Davis is born in Harlem, New York. He will become a battle rapper known as K Shine. He will be a freestyle rapper who excels at battle rapping and competes in the New York battle rap scene. He will release his debut mixtape "The Transition" in 2014. He will develop his catch phrase "Zip Em Up" let the taunting over Twitter leading up to a battle fuel him to annihilate those contestants on stage. That's what he will become known for. 1997 - Jorja Alice Smith is born in Walsall, West Midlands, England. She will become a Rhythm & Blues/Pop singer and songwriter. She will release several singles since January 2016 and collaborate with other artists, including Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Kali Uchis, and Stormzy. She will release her debut extended play, "Project 11," in November 2016. In 2018, she will win the Brit Critics' Choice Award. Her debut studio album, "Lost & Found," will be released in June, 2018 and peak at number three on the UK Albums Chart. At the 2019 Brit Awards, she will be named Best British Female Artist. She will also be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2019. 2003 - William Marshall, actor, joins the ancestors at the age of 78 after succumbing to complications from Alzheimer's disease. His roles ranged from Othello and Frederick Douglas to a vampire in the 1972 movie "Blacula." 2006 - Dr. James Cameron, who survived an attempted lynching by a white mob in 1930 and went on to found America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, joins the ancestors at the age of 92. 2014 - Ruby Dee joins the ancestors, at the age of 91, at her home in New Rochelle, New York. She was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961) and the film "American Gangster" (2007), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was the recipient of Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, Screen Actors Guild Award, Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Awards as well as the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors. She was married to actor Ossie Davis until he joined the ancestors in 2005. 2015 - Ornette Coleman joins the ancestors after succumbing to a cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in New York City. He was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album. His timbre was easily recognized: his keening, crying sound drew heavily on blues music. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. His album "Sound Grammar" received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music. 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