June 25: What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett, made its U.S. debut, 1993
June 25: What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett, made its U.S. debut, 1993
June 25: What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett, made its U.S. debut, 1993
June 24: Rosetta Douglass who wrote, “What Role is the Educated Negro Woman to Play in the Uplifting of Her Race?” was born, 1839
June 23: The award winning show, The Boondocks, ended its four year run, 2014
June 22: William Barry received the patent for the postmarking and cancelling machine, which is used by Post Offices around the globe, 1897
June 21: Blues singer known as the “King of the Boogie,” John Lee Hooker passed away at the age of 83 in 2001
June 20: George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic were Grammy, Salute To Music Legends, award recipients, 2019
June 19: Juneteenth is observed, commemorating the day Africans in Texas heard of the end of legal enslavement in the U.S.,1865
June 18: Robert Church, the first African American millionaire in South, was born in Holly Springs, MS, 2839
June 17: Ermias Asghedom aka Nipsey Hussle opened The Marathon Store. It is world’s first “smart store” , 2017
June 16: The 1st African American Mayor of Newark, NJ Kenneth Gibson was elected, 1970
June 15: Michael Jordan bought a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, 2006
June 14: The famous 125th St. (at Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.) in Harlem, NY was co-named Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan Way, 2019
June 13: Thurgood Marshall was appointed as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, 1967
June 12: Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers was shot to death in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, 1963
June 11: The United States Post Office issued the a stamp honoring educator Anna Julia Cooper, 2009