Black Fact of the Day: May 19, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
Human Rights leader and outstanding orator Malcolm X aka El-Hajj Malik El- Shabazz was born in Omaha, NE, 1925.
Human Rights leader and outstanding orator Malcolm X aka El-Hajj Malik El- Shabazz was born in Omaha, NE, 1925.
An untitled Jean-Michel Basquiat work has sold for $110.5m, becoming the most expensive American painting ever, 2017.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruled that public education can not be segregated on the basis of race, 1954.
Dr. William Barnes became the first African American Board Certified specialist, 1927.
Ray Lewis, considered to be one of the greatest NFL linebackers, was born in Bartow, Florida, 1975.
“BlacKkKlansman,” biographical crime film directed by Spike Lee was released at Cannes, 2018.
Stephen Hardaway aka Stevie Wonder was born on this day in Saginaw, MI, 1950.
Robert Smalls, while enslaved, stole a Confederate ship and freed a number of enslaved, 1862.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, was born in Chicago, 1972.
Leroy T. Walker, the first Black president of the United States Olympic Committee, passed away, 2012.
Dr. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, who was once denied admission in Law school in OK, was appointed to the Board of Regents of the Univ. of OK, 1992.
Michael Jordan played his final game and received a three minute standing ovation, 2003.
The first African American mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington, was born, 1922.
Classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop singer Nina Simone was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2018.
General Roscoe Robinson Jr. Auditorium was dedicated at West Point in honor of Army 4-star General, Roscoe Robinson Jr., 2000.