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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Black Facts that happened on March the 7th:

1539 Estavanico Dorantes leads expedition
Estavanico Dorantes, a black Moorish slave, leads a Spanish expedition to the southwestern North Ameican continent in search for El Dorado, the lost City of Gold. Their search is unsuccessful and Estavanico is later killed by native peoples.

1859 Blacks Declared Non-Citizens of US
The Acting Commissioner of General Lands for the United States, J.S. Wilson, stated that blacks were not citizens of the United States, and therefore were not legally entitled to preempt public lands.

1870 Denouncement of Klan violence
Gov. William W. Holden of North Carolina denounced Klan violence and issued proclaimation declaring Almanance County in a state of insurrection.

1917 Janet Collins, ballerina, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana

1927 Supreme Court decision
Supreme Court decision (Nixon v. Herndon) struck down Texas law which barred Blacks from voting in "white primary."

1942 First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.

1945 Anthony Bonair, photographer, born


1965 Thousands of marchers, led by Martin Luther King Jr. completed first leg of five-day Selma-to-Montgomery march. Marchers were protected by federalized Alabama National Guardsmen and U.S. Army troops. Selma-to-Montgomery march ended with rally of some fifty thousands at Alabama capitol. One of the marchers, a white civil rights worker named Viola Liuzzo, was shot to death on U.S. Highway after the rally by white terrorists. Three Klansmen were convicted of violating her civil rights and sentenced to ten years in prison. Through the 25th, Alabama state troopers and sheriff's deputies dispersed Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march with tear gas and billy clubs, Three white Unitarian ministers, including Rev. James J. Reeb, attacked on streets of Selma, Alabama. Reeb, who was participating in civil rights demonstrations, died later in Birmingham hospital.

1985 " We Are the World" single is released to benefit African famine.

1997 Michael Manley, former Jamaican prime minister, dies (1924-1997)


From Black Facts Online

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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P. B. S. Pinchback
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(1837-1921)

America's first black governor. He held more major political positions than any other African American during Reconstruction.

Pinckney Benton Stewart (P.B.S.) Pinchback was the free-born son of a wealthy white planter, William Pinchback, and his longtime mistress, an emancipated slave named Eliza Steward. William Pinchback's family successfully challenged his will after his death in 1848, leaving Eliza and their five children destitute. Fearing that Pinchback's relatives would attempt to enslave them, Eliza moved the family to Cincinnati, where Pinchback attended Gilmore's High School.

In 1862, after working as a steward on a Mississippi riverboat, Pinchback joined the Union Army in New Orleans. He recruited and commanded a company of the Corps d'Afrique, a Louisiana cavalry unit. Initially, all of the Corps d'Afrique's officers were black. The black officers learned, however, that their commissions were subject to qualification examinations. All of the black officers, except Pinchback, were replaced by white officers. When authorities repeatedly ignored Pinchback's demands for equal treatment of black officers and troops, he resigned in protest in September 1863.

Pinchback remained in New Orleans after the Civil War, helping to shape Louisiana's Republican Party and holding public offices. In 1867, he served as a member of the state's Constitutional Convention, and a year later, he was elected to Louisiana's state senate. He served as President pro tempore of the Senate in 1871, and succeeded Oscar J. Dunn as Lieutenant Governor after Dunn's death in January 1871. When the Louisiana House of Representatives began impeachment proceedings against Governor Henry Clay Warmoth in December 1872, Pinchback became Louisiana's Acting Governor, serving until January 1873 when W.P. Kellogg succeeded him.

Pinchback's career suffered several political setbacks. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1872, but both Pinchback and his opponent, George A. Sheridan, claimed victory. They contested the seat until February 4, 1875, when the House Committee on Elections judged Sheridan the winner. Meanwhile, in January 1873, the Louisiana legislature elected Pinchback to the U.S. Senate, which was also contested by another rival W.L. McMillen. Though McMillen eventually acknowledged Pinchback's claim to the seat, Senators uncovered evidence that Pinchback had paid $10,000 to obtain it. On March 13, 1875, the Senate denied Pinchback his seat by a vote of 32 to 29.

The end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the restoration of white supremacist rule in the South ended Pinchback's career in public office, although as a wealthy man with considerable political skills, he continued to advocate in behalf of American blacks by attempting to slow the momentum of Southern Democrats who were working to disfranchise blacks and enforce the segregation of the races. He also attempted to sway public opinion by publishing a newspaper, the Louisianan. In 1875 he became chairman of the Convention of Colored Newspaper Men, which led to the formation of the Associated Negro Press.

Pinchback succeeded in several business ventures throughout his life. He was a cotton dealer, and helped to found the Mississippi River Packet Company. He also profited from his positions in government and the information that they provided. For instance, Pinchback arranged for the New Orleans Park Commission, on which he served, to purchase property he owned for more than its market value. He also profited from bond speculation, stating that "I belonged to the General Assembly, and knew about what it would do... My investments were made accordingly." In 1897, Pinchback and his wife, Nina Hawthorne, moved to Washington, D.C. where he became a leading member of the city's black social elite until his death in 1921. Among his grandchildren was Jean Toomer, the well-known novelist of the Harlem Renaissance.

Author, Robert Fay

http://www.theblackmale.com/black-men/History/pinchback.htm



"I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth."--P.B.S. Pinchback

Ladytex
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Black Facts that happened on March the 8th:

1825 Alexander Thomas Augusta, first African American faculty member of an American medical school, Howard University, is born free

1876 U.S. Senate refuses to seat P.B.S. Pinchback, elected Senator from Louisiana in 1873, after three years of controversy.

1945 Phyllis Mae Daley, first of four African American Navy nurses to serve active duty in WW II receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps.

1977 Henry L. Marsh III elected 1st Black mayor of Richmond.

1993 Singer Billy Eckstine died in Pittsburgh at age 78.

http://www.blackfacts.com/

Ladytex
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Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.

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He was born the only child of the first black career officer in the Foreign Service to reach the rank of ambassador and, in addition to his pioneering appointment at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA- CREF), his own list of first-black accomplishments filled an entire page. He is sometimes called the "quiet pioneer". He was the first black to graduate from the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University; in 1958, he was the first African American to earn a PhD in economics from University of Chicago and, in 1970, the first African-American president of a major, predominantly White university--Michigan State. He also was the first African American chancellor of the State University of New York, and the first to chair the board of a major foundation--the Rockefeller Foundation. He was the first black to become a director on the boards of a major life insurance company (Equitable Life) and automobile manufacturer (Ford Motor Co.). Wharton had also chaired the Rockefeller Foundation and had become the first black elected a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.

Wharton left TIAA-CREF in 1993 to make history again, this time in politics and foreign policy. That year he became Bill Clinton's deputy secretary of state, the second highest official in the State Department. There, he was involved in reorganizing the Department and restructuring the Agency for International Development. After eight months at the post, he resigned, amid controversy over his role in the Clinton administration's foreign policy.

Dr. Wharton has been awarded honorary doctorates from 25 universities since 1970 and has served as trustee or director of more than 26 business corporations and public affairs associations since 1967. He has authored/edited four books and monographs and more than 50 professional journal articles. He was named a fellow of the AAEA in 1988

an Interview with Dr. Wharton

Dr. Wharton Appreciation Club

Moorestown.com Biography

Johns Hopkins Magazine Alumni News

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/59/04713782/0471378259.pdf










Ladytex
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Actor Paul Winfield dies of heart attack

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4485820/

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The Associated Press
Updated: 9:41 a.m. ET March 09, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Paul Winfield, an Academy Award-nominated actor who was known for his versatility in stage, film and television roles, including a highly praised 1978 depiction of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 62.

Winfield died Sunday of a heart attack, said his agent Michael Livingston.

In 1968, Winfield played the boyfriend of Diahann Carroll in her situation comedy “Julia” — a role that some suggest helped open television to other black performers.

Four years later Winfield’s portrayal of the father in “Sounder” earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor.

He was Emmy-nominated for best actor in the title role of the 1978 miniseries “King,” and nominated the next year in the best supporting actor category for playing a college chancellor willing to sing Negro spirituals to get donations for his school in “Roots: The Next Generation.”

He finally won an Emmy in 1995 for a guest appearance on “Picket Fences.” He played a federal judge whose rulings on busing inner-city children are challenged by a local resident.

Despite acclaim, Winfield was often relegated to supporting roles, including playing Jim in a 1974 remake of “Huckleberry Finn.”

Sidney Poitier hired Winfield for his first movie role in “The Lost Man” in 1969. Other significant roles included an appearance in the Broadway play “Checkmates” with Denzel Washington, and his portrayal of Don King in a 1995 HBO movie.

A Los Angeles native, Winfield was born May 22, 1941. Until he was 8, he was raised by union organizer Lois Edwards, who later married Winfield’s stepfather.

He was bused to the predominantly white Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles and was named best actor for three years in a row in an annual Southern California high school drama competition.

He later studied drama at four colleges before leaving the University of California at Los Angeles six credits short of a bachelor’s degree.

He is survived by his sister, Patricia Wilson, of Las Vegas.

© 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a shame. I really loved that man as an actor. :-(

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh no I loved his work. Jeez this is so sad. We are losing soooo many good people.

Max
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08-12-2000

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 9:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Such a drag. Narration on "City Confidential" will never be the same. Gone much too soon. :-(

Reiki
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08-12-2000

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved Paul Winfield's voice. So smooth. I forgot that he was on Julia. I loved that show. He will be missed.

Wink
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10-06-2000

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree Max. His voice on City Confidential is hypnotic. This is very sad news.

Hippyt
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09-10-2001

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh,that is so sad. Sounder makes me turn into a sniveling blob of jelly. He was a great talent.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

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I loved him , he was a great man and great actor

Ddr
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08-19-2001

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I loved his narration in City Confidential. I've always like him since his role in The Terminator.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Daisy Lampkin
1883?-1965

Daisy Adams Lampkin dedicated her life to elevating African-Americans and women. She is most recognized for her contributions as an organizer, fund-raiser, public speaker and mobilization specialist.

Born Daisy Elizabeth Adams on August 9, 1883? in Washington, D.C., Lampkin grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania as the only child of George and Rosa Adams. After graduating from public high school, the young woman came to Pittsburgh in about 1909. She married William Lampkin in 1912 and helped him at his restaurant in a Pittsburgh suburb. Lampkin proceeded to devote her adult life to social causes, beginning with those issues that were important to her as a black housewife. She is believed to have given her first women's rights tea in 1912, and when the couple moved into the city, she became more actively involved in the suffrage movement. The Lampkins had no children, but helped to raise a friend's daughter, Romaine Childs, who became Lampkin's heir.

As a suffragist, Lampkin joined the Negro Women's Equal Franchise Federation, later renamed the Lucy Stone League. In 1915 Lampkin became the organization's president, a position she held for 40 years. After women obtained the right to vote, the group raised money for scholarships. Lampkin's early career as a suffragette included making street-corner speeches and encouraging other black housewives to create a social voice as organized consumer groups.

Once Lampkin had gained the right to vote, she became actively involved in politics. She would become chairman of the Allegheny County Negro Women's Republican League, vice-chairman of the Negro Voters League of Pennsylvania, and vice-chairman of the Colored Voters Division of the Republican National Committee. Lampkin also served twice as an alternate delegate at large to the National Republican Party Convention.

Lampkin involved herself in an amazing number of other organizations and projects. During World War I, she led Allegheny County's black community in raising over $2 million in Liberty Bond sales. Lampkin helped organize the first Red Cross chapter among black women and created local chapters of the Urban League and NAACP. She was a charter member of the National Council of Negro Women, a board chairman for the National Association of Colored Women, and an elder of Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Lampkin became a Pittsburgh Courier vice president under editor- publisher Robert L. Vann, who had previously recruited her to help with fundraising. According to one account, Lampkin had won a subscription contest for the black weekly in which a promoter promised a car as first prize; when the promoter disappeared leaving Vann without a car, he rewarded Lampkin out of his own pocket. Another account says that Lampkin was made a stock holder. While a vice president, Lampkin wrote stories and was often named in the newspaper. "The women's pages ... featured an impressive array of clubs which sponsored weekly events in the black community, and Daisy Lampkin was always out in front raising money for orphans and widows, church mortgages and scholarships for youth," Edna B. McKenzie noted in Pennsylvania Heritage. By mid-century, she had helped make the Pittsburgh Courier the most widely circulated black newspaper in the world.

In 1930, Lampkin became the first field secretary for the NAACP. She assumed this job under the direction of Walter White, and quickly made her presence felt in the organization. Lampkin is credited with single-handedly arranging for the NAACP's 1931 national convention to be held in Pittsburgh. In 1935 Lampkin was made national field secretary, a role she filled until 1947 when she became a member of the board of directors. This change came about when Lampkin's doctor advised her to slow down in consideration of her poor health. For Lampkin's work for the NAACP was very rigorous, requiring frequent travel and long days. It is believed that she once conducted 40 chapter meetings in a single month. She crossed the country forming new chapters, reviving existing chapters, and raising money. Ultimately, Lampkin could never bring herself to retire and served the organization for some 35 years.

Among the most important episodes of Lampkin's service to the NAACP was when she spearheaded the anti-lynching button campaign of 1937, which was aimed to support the Costigan-Wagner Act that was to be voted on in the U.S. Congress. The act called for federal intervention when local authorities failed to respond to lynchings. To this end, the NAACP was faced with the difficult task of increasing blacks' awareness of lynchings. As Lampkin recalled in a 1962 interview with author Robert L. Zangrando, "We were so ashamed that whites could do that to us, that we hardly wanted to talk about it publicly." Some 250,000 buttons were produced that read "Stop lynching! N.A.A.C.P. Defense Fund." Sold at a time when blacks were still suffering financially from the Great Depression, the buttons grossed $9,378 by April of 1937.

Lampkin was also involved in much behind-the-scenes work, including convincing future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to become a member of the association's Legal Defense Committee. She is said to have told the young lawyer in 1938--when he was practicing law in Baltimore--that he should move to New York to be near the NAACP headquarters. By 1954 he had become an attorney for the organization and argued the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court. In particular, Lampkin worked closely with Roy Wilkins, who was head of the NAACP at the time of her death.

Some historians doubt that an accurate measure of Lampkin's contributions as an activist was ever made during her lifetime. Edna B. McKenzie, an emeritus professor at the Community College of Allegheny County, remarked in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "the men really depended upon her. I doubt seriously if they could have done it without Daisy Lampkin. She raised the money and she recruited the people. I'm not just talking about Pittsburgh; I'm talking nationally." And Lampkin was described by Paula Giddings in When and Where I Enter as an example of "women who performed much of the nuts- and-bolts work of their organizations, yet were hardly expected to gain public recognition or even be in on major policy decisions." However, in some instances her impact was clearly documented: in 1944 she was credited with increasing the NAACP's membership more than any other executive; in 1945 the organization named her its "Woman of the Year;" and during her last year as national field secretary, Lampkin was reported to have raised over $1 million for the NAACP.

During the early 1950s Lampkin renewed her involvement in women's issues when she assisted the black sorority Delta Sigma Theta with a fundraising campaign to create a national headquarters in Washington, D.C. As Paula Giddings noted in In Search of Sisterhood, this campaign or "'crusade' would be different from the others. For the first time she would try to raise a significant amount of funds wholly within one organization: an organization whose members, chapters, and regions had varying amounts of resources." The resulting campaign called for chapters to give the prescribed amount of $100 each, for graduate sorors to give at least $10, and for student members to give $5. In this way she helped the sorority to centralize their record keeping and finances and to have a presence in the policy-making center of the nation.

Hypertension and arthritis were the leading causes that prompted Lampkin to leave her position as NAACP field secretary and the hardship of extensive traveling, but she continued to work as a member of the organization's board. Lampkin died on March 10, 1965 after having a stroke months earlier at a NAACP membership drive event in Camden, New Jersey. As this illustrated, her dedication to the civil rights organization never faltered. Her adopted daughter Romaine Childs remembered in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "They'd call and say, 'Daisy, we need you'....We've got some boys in jail. We need to raise some funds.' She couldn't stay in a hotel (because of segregation) but she'd pack her bags in the middle of the night or day and go raise funds for the NAACP. And that was her life." The Pittsburgh Courier reflected in Lampkin's obituary that the woman was "in herself an institution. There was no line of separation between herself and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was truly 'Mrs. NAACP.'"

In 1983 Lampkin was recognized in her adopted home town of Pittsburgh by a historical marker on her Webster Avenue apartment building. This was the first time the state of Pennsylvania awarded a plaque to honor an African American in the city. In 1997 she was the recipient of the "Spirit of King" award, which honors civil rights advocates from Pittsburgh who embody the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

http://africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0129LampkinDaisy.asp?pic=none

http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000208kids9.asp

Pittsburgh Courier Obituary



Ladytex
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Black Facts that happened on March the 9th:

1871 Birthday in Florence, Alabama, of Oscar De Priest, who became a politician after moving to Chicago. Elected in 1928, De Priest was the first African American from Illinois elected to the House of Representatives.

1891 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is founded in Greensboro, NC.

1911 White firemen of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad struck to protest the hiring of Black firemen.

1922 In Asheville, North Carolina, civil rights activist Floyd H. McKissick was born. A lawyer, newspaper columnist and business executive, McKissick attended Morehouse College, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina Central University.

1961 Clifton Wharton, Sr. is sworn in as ambassador to Norway.

1966 Andrew F. Brimmer became the first Black governor of the Federal Reserve Board.

1997 Rap artist the Notorious B.I.G. is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. He was 24.

1999 The U.S. Supreme Court declared Joseph Cinquez and his fellow mutineers free. In August 1839, in the most famous slave ship revolt in history, Cinquez, the son of an African king, and his Mendi followers had killed the captain and taken over the Spanish slaver the Amistad. The rebels were captured off Long Island, where they had been discovered floating in a "mysterious long black schooner" with tattered sails before trying to sail the Amistad back
to Africa.

Black Facts that happened on March the 10th:

1861 El-Hadj Omar, Tukulor conqueror, starts his empire with the capture of Segu.

1863 Two infantry regiments, First and Second South Carolina Volunteers, captured and occupied Jacksonville, Fla., causing panic along Southern seaboard.

1913 Death of Harriet Tubman in Auburn, New York.

1965 Daisy Lampkin, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, died from the effects of a December 1964 heart attack.

1969 James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in a Memphis court to charges of killing Martin Luther King Jr. He was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. The House Select Committee on Assassinations said later that Ray fired the shot that killed King but that he was probably one element in a larger conspiracy.

1972 Through the 12th - three thousand delegates and five thousand observers attended the first Black political convention in Gary, Indiana. The NAACP and other groups withdrew from the convention after the adoption of resolutions critical of busing and the state of Israel.

From Black Facts Online


Essence
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March 11:

1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant began to lay out Washington in the District of Columbia.

1861 Confederate Congress, meeting in Montgomery, Ala., adopted constitution which declared that the passage of any "law denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves was prohibited."

1874 Frederick Douglass named president of the failing Freedmen's Bank.

1948 Dr. Reginald Weir becomes the first black player to compete in the U.S. Indoor Lawn Tennis Association Championship.

1956 Segreagation Denounced in public schools. Through 12th Manifesto denouncing Supreme Cout ruling on segregation in public schools, issued by one hundred Southern senators and representatives.

1959 "Raisin in the Sun," first Broadway play by a Black woman, opened at Barrymore Theater with Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil in the starring roles. Lorraine Hansberry's drama was the first Broadway play with a Black director, Lloyd Richards, in the modern era.

1959 Comedian and television star Flip Wilson received the International Broadcasting Man of the Year Award. Flip Wilson was the first Afro-American to be a television superstar.

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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson has firmly established himself as one of the most dynamic forces for social and political action in both the national and international arenas. He has campaigned for economic justice, human rights, world peace, and the United States presidency. An inspirational speaker, committed activist, and tireless and confident campaigner, Jackson began his career as a foot soldier in the Civil Rights movement of the 196Os and has developed into a leader of millions of Americans--black and white--a "rainbow coalition" of the nation's dispossessed and disenfranchised.

Jackson has drawn upon his own early experience in Greenville, South Carolina, to relate to his constituency. He was born on October 8, 1941, to a seventeen-year-old unwed high school student and her older, comfortably middle-class neighbor, a married man. Jackson's ancestry includes black slaves, a Cherokee, and a white plantation owner. Although the young Jackson was quite aware of poverty and illegitimacy, his mother, grandmother, and stepfather were always able to attend to family needs. Even so, his knowledge of social inequities and of his more privileged half brothers affected him. As Barbara Reynolds wrote in her biography Jesse Jackson: America's David: "Every teacher Jesse came into contact with took note of his insecurities, masked by a stoic sense of superiority. They never perceived him as brilliant, but rather each saw him as a charmer, a spirited, fierce competitor with an almost uncanny drive to prove himself by always winning, always being number one in everything." At Sterling High School Jackson was elected president of his class, the honor society, and the student council, was named state officer of the Future Teachers of America, finished tenth in his class, and lettered in football, basketball, and baseball.

In 1959 Jackson left the South to attend the University of Illinois on an athletic scholarship. During his first year, however, he became dissatisfied with his treatment on campus and on the gridiron and decided to transfer to Greensboro's North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, a predominantly black institution. There he was quarterback, honor student, fraternity officer, and president of the student body. After receiving his B.A. in sociology he accepted a Rockefeller grant to attend the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he planned to train for the ministry. Jackson was ordained a Baptist minister in 1968, though he had not finished his course work at CTS, having instead left in 1966 to commit himself full-time to the Civil Rights movement.

Jackson first became involved in the Civil Rights movement while a student at North Carolina A&T. There he joined the Greensboro chapter of the Council on Racial Equality (CORE), an organization that had led early sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters. In 1963 Jackson organized numerous marches, sit-ins, and mass arrests to press for the desegregation of local restaurants and theaters. His leadership in these events earned him recognition within the regional movement; he was chosen president of the North Carolina Intercollegiate Council on Human Rights, field director of CORE's southeastern operations, and in 1964 served as delegate to the Young Democrats National Convention. In Chicago in 1965 Jackson was a volunteer for the Coordinating Committee of Community Organizations and organized regular meetings of local black ministers and the faculty of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Joined King and the SCLC in 1965

Jackson joined Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1965 during demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, pushing for expanded voting rights for blacks. When the SCLC launched the Chicago Freedom movement in 1966, Jackson was there to put his knowledge of the city and contacts within the black community to work for King. He organized local ministers to support the movement, marched through all-white neighborhoods to push for open housing, and began work on the SCLC's economic program, Operation Breadbasket. Drawing from successful campaigns in other cities, Operation Breadbasket organized the black community to use selective buying and boycotts to support black manufacturers and retailers and to pressure white-owned businesses to stock more of their products and hire more black workers. Jackson served as Operation Breadbasket's Chicago coordinator for one year and was then named its national director. Under Jackson's leadership the Chicago group won concessions from local dairies and supermarkets to hire more blacks and stock more products from black businesses. It encouraged deposits from businesses and the government for black-owned banks and organized a Black Christmas and a Black Expo to promote black-owned manufacturers.

In addition to his SCLC activities, Jackson led a number of other campaigns in his adopted home city and state. In 1969 and 1970 he gathered Illinois's malnourished and led them on a march to the state capital to raise consciousness of hunger. He led a similar event in Chicago. The state responded by increasing funding to school lunch programs, but Mayor Richard Daley's machine in Chicago was less cooperative. The mayor's power and resistance to change, as well as an Illinois law that raised difficult barriers to independent candidates, prompted Jackson to run for mayor of Chicago in 1971. He was not successful; some believe, however, that his efforts laid the foundation for Harold Washington's successful bid to become Chicago's first black mayor in 1983.

In 1971 Jackson resigned from the SCLC to found his own organization, People United to Save Humanity (PUSH). Because of his aggressive, impatient, and commanding personality, Jackson had long irritated SCLC leadership; and, in the three and a half years after King's assassination, he had offended others with his public antics to secure a role as leader of the Civil Rights movement and his feuds with Ralph D. Abernathy, King's successor as president of the SCLC, over leadership, policy, and funding.

Through PUSH Jackson continued to pursue the economic objectives of Operation Breadbasket and expand into areas of social and political development for blacks in Chicago and across the nation. The 197Os saw direct action campaigns, weekly radio broadcasts, and awards through which Jackson protected black homeowners, workers, and businesses, and honored prominent blacks in the U.S. and abroad. He also promoted education through

PUSH-Excel, a spin-off program that focused on keeping inner-city youths in school and providing them with job placement.

Ran for President

Jackson launched his first campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984. His appeals for social programs, voting rights, and affirmative action for those neglected by Reaganomics earned him strong showings in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C. He received 3.5 million votes, enough to secure a measure of power and respect at the Democratic convention.

Jackson's 1988 campaign for the Democratic nomination was characterized by more organization and funding than his previous attempt. With the experience he gained from 1984 and new resources, Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition surprised the media and the political pundits. Initially written off as unelectable, Jackson emerged in the primary/caucus season as a serious contender for the nomination. He attracted over 6.9 million votes--from urban blacks and Hispanics, poor rural whites, farmers and factory workers, feminists and homosexuals, and from white progressives wanting to be part of a historic change. In his platform he called for homes for the homeless, comparable worth and day care for working women, a higher minimum wage, a commitment to the family farm, and an all-out war on drugs. "When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground" he told delegates at the party convention on July 19, 1988, "we'll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation.

After early respectable losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, he won five southern states on Super Tuesday, March 8, 1988. On March 12 he won the caucus in his birth state of South Carolina and three days later finished second in his home state of Illinois. On March 26, 1988 Jackson stunned Dukakis and the rest of the nation in the Michigan caucus: Having won that northern industrial state with 55 percent of the vote, Jackson became the Democratic front-runner. Dukakis later recaptured the lead and the eventual nomination with strong showings in the second half of the primary season.

Jackson then exercised the power of his second-place finish to force his consideration as a vice-presidential running mate and to influence the nature of the Democratic Convention and the issues included on its platform. Although Jackson was not chosen as the vice-presidential running mate, he had succeeded in bringing Americans of all colors to consider a black man for the presidency and vice-presidency.

After the 1988 elections Jackson moved his home from Chicago to Washington, D.C. There he has campaigned against homelessness in the nation's capital. He was considered one of the top contenders to take over as the capital's mayor after Marion Berry was forced out of office by a drug scandal, but Jackson refused to run. Instead, he announced in July of 1990 that he would seek election as the District of Columbia's "statehood senator," a position recently established by the city government to push Congress to grant statehood to the district. He was elected in November and sworn into office in January of 1991. Jackson did not seek re-election after his six-year term as statehood senator ended in 1996, although he continued to advocate statehood for the nation's capital.

From D.C. to Wall Street

In 1997, Jackson shifted his focus from the nation's political capital to its financial capital. Seeing a need for a stronger minority presence on New York's Wall Street, Jackson founded the Wall Street Project. The organization lobbied companies to provide more business and employment opportunities for minorities. The Wall Street Project promoted conscientiousness among African American stockholders who may not realize the influence that they have as shareholders. As Jackson explained to Black Enterprise, "When you go into a meeting as a shareholder, you now have the right to the floor. Now you can walk into a board meeting and say 'Mr. Chairman, I'd like to see a list of our Board of Directors...a list of our employees so we can see where they fit into this company horizontally and vertically." A stockholder has the power to promote greater employment and business opportunities for African Americans.

Prior to founding the Wall Street Project, Jackson's strategy for influencing corporate behavior had been to organize protests. However, a pivotal event occurred in 1996 which helped Jackson decide to change his tactics. When charges had surfaced that Texaco employees had made racist comments, Jackson called New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall, asking him to join him in picketing Texaco. McCall told Black Enterprise that he responded, "'Jesse, when you own a million shares you don't have to picket.'" Because McCall controlled New York state's investments, he had a great deal of influence with the companies the state had invested in.

With the Wall Street Project, Jackson hopes to give minorities the same influence McCall had with Texaco. Jackson told Black Enterprise. "We empower politically with our vote. Now we must empower economically with our dollar." But not just anyone can vote. Only stockholders have a real say in corporate operations. The purchase of just ten shares of stock, Jackson said, provides a shareholder with enough leverage to promote business opportunities for African Americans. As the stock's value increases, so too does the amount of influence a shareholder has. Jackson told Ebony, "So we have gone from sharecroppers to shareholders. We say to corporate America: We don't want to be just consumers and workers, but investors and partners."

Diplomatic Efforts

Throughout his career as a political and social activist, Jackson has also been a prominent figure in international diplomacy. In 1979 he traveled to South Africa to speak out against apartheid and to the Middle East to try to establish relations between Israel and the Palestinians. In January of 1984 he returned to the Middle East to negotiate the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman, a black Navy pilot who had been shot down and taken hostage in the region. Later that year he traveled to Cuba to negotiate the release of several political prisoners held there and to Central America, where he spoke out for regional peace. In 1990 Jackson was the first American to bring hostages out of Iraq and Kuwait.

When three U.S. soldiers serving as part of NATO's forces in Yugoslavia were captured by the Yugoslav army in March of 1999, Jackson, along with an interfaith delegation, embarked on a diplomatic mission to negotiate their release. U.S. national security advisor Sandy Berger warned Jackson, as a private citizen, he did not have the authority to offer Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic any concessions on behalf of the United States. Berger also warned that Jackson's safety could not be guaranteed. Despite these warnings, Jackson, confident that he could persuade Milsocovic to release the prisoners as a gesture of goodwill, set off on his diplomatic mission. Jackson's confidence was not unfounded and when Jackson returned it was with the three soldiers at his side. The U.S. Senate recognized Jackson's efforts with a commendation.

In May of 1999, Jackson traveled to war-torn Sierra Leone, where he negotiated a cease-fire agreement between Tejan Kabbah, the country's president, and rebel Foday Sankoh. Jackson also negotiated for the release of more than two thousand prisoners of war. One year later, he returned to Sierra Leone to assist once more in the country's peace process.

Sought Answers in Suspicious Hanging Death

When teenager Raynard Johnson was found hanging by a belt from the pecan tree in front of his home in Kokomo Mississippi in 2000, suspicions arose immediately that his death may have been a lynching. Although medical examiners found no evidence of struggle, Johnson's parents could not believe that their son had committed suicide. Jackson did not believe the boy's death was a suicide either. He told Jet, "He had just gotten a computer. He was outgoing. He was in the Top 5 percentile on his test scores. He was very bright....A lot of signs point upwards. He was excited about life."

Jackson's Rainbow Coalition/PUSH launched its own investigation into Johnson's death. Jackson's investigators identified several people who could have been involved in the teenager's death and said that someone may have been angered by Johnson's friendship with two white girls. Authorities, however, said that Johnson's girlfriend had broken up with him shortly before his death and contended that all the evidence was consistent with suicide.

In 2000, Jackson, along with his son, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., published It's About the Money!: How You Can Get Out of Debt, Build Wealth, and Achieve Your Financial Dreams! The book is a how-to guide for financial independence and security. Jackson explained to Mother Jones that economic self-sufficiency is a vital base for the struggle for freedom. "It costs to send children to college," Jackson said. "It costs to have health insurance." Yet, in a culture of credit card debt, so many Americans do not understand basic economics. With his book, Jackson hoped to change that.

Never Far From Controversy

Jackson has stirred both admiration and criticism. His behavior in the hours immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., was a subject of controversy: Jackson claimed that he had held the dying leader, heard his last words, and had his shirt stained by King's blood. Other SCLC officers present at the murder have disputed those claims. As an organizer Jackson often overstepped his authority in SCLC matters and violated organization policy in a number of his Chicago campaigns. His economic boycotts were criticized by some businessmen as extortion and by some reformers for lacking follow-through. The management of PUSH's people and finances were the subject of close scrutiny and the freewheeling nature of the organization was regularly called into question. Jackson offended some Americans by negotiating with the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), Fidel Castro, and the Marxist Sandinista govenrment of Nicaragua. Jackson's connection with the Black Muslim leader and outspoken anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, as well as the candidate's reference to New York City as "Hymietown", outraged Jews.

However, the same driving ambition to achieve success that is the root of Jackson's weaknesses is also the source of his strength. He is a tireless worker who is fiercely committed to his causes, even when bedridden--Jackson suffers from sickle-cell trait. He is an intelligent, creative, and charismatic leader, and an inspirational speaker capable of archiving numerous details, then using them to encapsulate his agenda along with the aspirations of many Americans. He has a flair for the dramatic that infuses an increasingly tedious political process with life. And finally, Jackson acts while others talk of action. He has become the leading spokesman for Americans forgotten by the power brokers of the political process, especially blacks. In a 1996 speech, Jackson said, "If you go along and get along, you're a coward. Only by principled engagement can you be a force for change and hope." Jackson's life has been one of principled engagement.

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Black Facts that happened on March the 12th:

1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable founded settlement now known as Chicago, Ill, 1773
1791 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant, are commissioned to lay out the District of Columbia.

1912 Dorothy Height, Visionary, was born on this day.

1932 Andrew Young, former US United Nations ambassador, former congressman and former mayor of Atlanta, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1936 Virginia Hamilton, juvenile fiction writer, born

1945 On March 12, 1945, New York was the first state to established a Fair Employment Practices Commission.

1955 Death of Charlie Parker (34), one of the founders of the modern jazz movement, in New York City.

1964 Malcolm X resigned from the Nation of Islam

1968 Mauritius becomes independent

1982 Charles Fuller wins the Pulitzer Prize for A Soldier's Play

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Dorothy Height

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Throughout her career, Dr. Dorothy I. Height has been a leader in the struggle for equality and human rights for all people. Her life exemplifies her passionate commitment for a just society and her vision of a better world. Born in Richmond, Virginia, she moved with her parents to Ranklin, Pennsylvania at an early age and attended public schools. Winner of a scholarship for her exceptional oratorical skills, she entered New York University where she earned the Bachelor and Master degrees in four years. While working as a caseworker for the welfare department in New York, Dr. Height joined the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in 1937 and her career as a pioneer in civil rights activities began to unfold.

She served on the national staff of the YWCA of USA from 1944 to 1977 where she was active in developing its leadership training and interracial and ecumenical education programs. In 1965, she inaugurated the Center for Racial Justice, which is still a major initiative of the National YWCA. She served as the 10th national president of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., from 1946 to 1957, before becoming president of the NCNW in 1958. Working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, and others, Dr. Height participated in virtually all of the major civil and human rights events in the 1950’s and 1960’s. During the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Height organized "Wednesdays in Mississippi," which brought together black and white women from the north and South to create a dialogue of understanding. Leaders of the United States regularly took her counsel, including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Height also encouraged President Dwight D. Eisenhower to desegregate schools and President Lyndon B. Johnson to appoint African American women to positions in government. For her tireless efforts on behalf of the less fortunate, President Ronald Reagan presented her the Citizens Medal Award for distinguished service to the country in 1989.

Dr. Height is known for her extensive international and developmental education work. She initiated the sole African-American private voluntary organization working in Africa in 1975, building on the success of NCNW’s assignments in Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. In three decades of national leadership, she has served on major policy- making bodies affecting women, social welfare, economic development, and civil and human rights, and has received numerous appointments and awards. Her most recent recognitions include appointment to the Advisory Council of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities by President Bush and to the National Advisory Council on Aging by Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan.

Her awards are extensive with the most recent ones including the Stellar Award; the Spirit of Cincinnati Ambassador Award; Camille Cosby World of Children Award; National Caucus and Center on Black Aged Living Legacy Award; the Caring Award by the Caring Institute; NAFEO Distinguished Leadership Award; the Olender Foundation’s Generous Heart Award; and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom From Want Award. She received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP in July 1993 and was inducted into The National Women’s Hall of Fame in October 1993. She also has received nineteen honorary doctorates from colleges and universities. As president of NCNW, Dorothy Irene Height has an outstanding record of accomplishments. As a self-help advocate, she has been instrumental in the initiation of NCNW sponsored food, childcare, housing and career educational programs that embody the principles of self-reliance.

As a promoter of Black family life she conceived and organized the Black Family Reunion Celebration in 1986 to reinforce the historic strengths and traditional values of the African-American Family. Now in its ninth year, this multi-city cultural event has attracted some 11.5 million people. Dr. Dorothy I. Height’s lifetime of achievement measures the liberation of Black America, the brilliant advance of women’s rights, and the most determined effort to lift up the poor and the powerless. Dream giver and earth shaker, Dr. Dorothy Height has followed and expanded on the original purpose of the National Council of Negro Women, giving new meaning, new courage and pride to women, youth and families everywhere.

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Black Facts that happened on March the 13th:

1861 Jefferson Davis signed bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers in the Confederate army.

1862 Congress forbade Union officers and soldiers to aid in the capture and return of fugitive slaves, ending what one historian called the "military slave hunt."

1869 Arkansas legislature passed anti-Klan law

1918 James Rhoden, sculptor, born

1932 Founded by William A. Scott, III, the Atlanta Daily World, the First Black Daily Newspaper, began publication.

1946 Col. B.O. Davis Jr. assumed command of Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio.

1957 John Lee, first black commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy is assigned to duty.

1979 In the island Republic of Grenada, the New Jewel Movement, headed by U.S. educated Maurice Bishop, ousted the government of Prime Minister Gairy.





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Black Facts that happened on March the 14th:

1794 Eli Whitney patented cotton gin which made cotton king and increased demand for slave labor.

1838 Blacks held a mass meeting in Philadelphia to protest the action of the Pennsylvania Reform Convention of 1837 which denied them the right to vote.

1917 First training camp for "colored" officers is established by the U.S. Army in Des Moines, Iowa

1933 Quincy Jones, Music Impresario, Born March 14, 1933 in Chicago’s South Side.

1947 William J. Jefferson, first congressman elected from Louisiana since Charles Edmund Nash left office in 1876, born


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Happy Birthday, Q!!

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Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., known to his friends as "Q," was born on Chicago's South Side. When he was ten he moved, with his father and stepmother, to Bremerton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. He first fell in love with music when he was in elementary school. and tried nearly all the instruments in his school band before settling on the trumpet. While barely in his teens, Quincy befriended a local singer-pianist, only three years his senior. His name was Ray Charles. The two youths formed a combo, eventually landing small club and wedding gigs.

At 18, the young trumpeter won a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out abruptly when he received an offer to go on the road with bandleader Lionel Hampton. The stint with Hampton led to work as a freelance arranger. Jones settled in New York, where, throughout the 1950s, he wrote charts for Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley and his old friend Ray Charles.

By 1956, Quincy Jones was performing as a trumpeter and music director with the Dizzy Gillespie band on a State Department-sponsored tour of the Middle East and South America. Shortly after his return, he recorded his first albums as a bandleader in his own right for ABC Paramount Records.

In 1957, Quincy settled in Paris where he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen, and worked as a music director for Barclay Disques, Mercury Records' French distributor. As musical director of Harold Arlen's jazz musical Free and Easy, Quincy Jones took to the road again. A European tour closed in Paris in February, 1960. With musicians from the Arlen show, Jones formed his own big band, with 18 artists -- plus their families -- in tow. European and American concerts met enthusiastic audiences and sparkling reviews, but concert earnings could not support a band of this size and the band dissolved, leaving its leader deeply in debt.

After a personal loan from Mercury Records head Irving Green helped resolve his financial difficulties, Jones went to work in New York as music director for the label. In 1964, he was named a vice-president of Mercury Records, the first African-American to hold such an executive position in a white-owned record company.

In that same year, Quincy Jones turned his attention to another musical area that had long been closed to blacks -- the world of film scores. At the invitation of director Sidney Lumet, he composed the music for The Pawnbroker. It was the first of his 33 major motion picture scores.

Following the success of The Pawnbroker Jones left Mercury Records and moved to Los Angeles. After his score for The Slender Thread, starring Sidney Poitier, he was in constant demand as a composer. His film credits in the next five years included Walk Don't Run, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, A Dandy in Aspic, MacKenna's Gold, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, The Lost Man, Cactus Flower, and The Getaway.

For television, Quincy wrote the theme music for Ironside (the first synthesizer-based TV theme song), Sanford and Son, and The Bill Cosby Show. The 1960s and '70s were also years of social activism for Quincy Jones. He was a major supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Operation Breadbasket, an effort to promote economic development in the inner cities. After Dr. King's death, Quincy Jones served on the board of Rev. Jesse Jackson's People United to Save Humanity (PUSH).

An ongoing concern throughout Jones's career has been to foster appreciation of African-American music and culture. To this end, he helped form IBAM (the Institute for Black American Music). Proceeds from IBAM events were donated toward the establishment of a national library of African-American art and music. He is also one of the founders of the annual Black Arts Festival in Chicago. In 1973, Quincy Jones co-produced the CBS television special Duke Ellington, We Love You Madly. This program featured such performers as Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Peggy Lee, Count Basie and Joe Williams performing Ellington's music. Jones himself led the orchestra.

The film composer/activist/TV producer had not abandoned his career as a recording artist, however. From 1969 to 1981 he recorded a series of chartbusting Grammy-winning albums fusing a sophisticated jazz sensibility with R&B grooves and popular vocalists. These included Walking in Space, Gula Materi, Smackwater Jack, and Ndeda. 1973's You've Got It Bad, Girl marked his recording debut as a singer. Its follow-up Body Heat sold over a million copies and stayed in the top five on the charts for six months.

This extraordinary streak almost came to a sudden end in August 1974, when Jones suffered a near-fatal cerebral aneurysm -- the bursting of blood vessels leading to the brain. After two delicate operations, and six months of recuperation, Quincy Jones was back at work with his dedication renewed. The albums Mellow Madness, I Heard That and The Dude finished out his contract with A&M records as a performer, but new challenges lay just ahead.

Jones went back into the studio to produce Michael Jackson's first solo album Off the Wall. Eight million copies were sold, making Jackson an international superstar and Quincy Jones the most sought-after record producer in Hollywood. The pair teamed again in 1982 to make Thriller. It became the best selling album of all time, selling over 30 million copies around the globe and spawning an unprecedented six Top Ten singles, including "Billie Jean," "Beat It" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."

His debut as a filmmaker occurred in 1985 when he co-produced Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The film won eleven Oscar nominations and introduced Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to movie audiences.

In 1993, Quincy Jones and David Salzman staged the concert spectacular "An American Reunion" to celebrate the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The two impresarios decided to form a permanent partnership called Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment (QDE). a co-venture with Time-Warner, Inc.

The company, in which Jones serves as co-CEO and chairman, encompasses multi-media programming for current and future technologies, including theatrical motion pictures and television. QDE also publishes Vibe magazine and produces the popular NBC-TV series Fresh Prince of Bel Air. At the same time, Jones runs his own record label, Qwest Records and is chairman and CEO of Qwest Broadcasting, one of the largest minority-owned broadcasting companies in the United States. He continues to prdouce hit records, among his latest are Back on the Block and Q's Jook Joint.

The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 76 nominations and 26 awards, Quincy Jones has also received an Emmy Award, seven Oscar nominations, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. His life and career were chronicled in 1990 in the critically acclaimed Warner Bros. film Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones.

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"If there are any common denominators, they are spirit and musicality. I go for the music that gives me goose bumps, music that touches my heart and my soul."

"...I feel I brought the sensibility of modern R&B influences into scoring, incorporating it in with the dramatic scoring. You have to get in there and cradle that drama, and you can't smother it. You can't jump all over it. It's a kind of hybrid art."


(from the Warner Bros. film, Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones)

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Cool! I concur....Happy Birthday Q!

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Black Facts that happened on March the 15th:

1911 Fifty-fifth Congress (1897-99) convened. One Black congressman: George H. White, North Carolina.

1933 NAACP began a coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination, filing a suit against the University of North Carolina on behalf of Thomas Hocutt. Case was lost on a technicality after the president of a Black college refused to certify the records of the plaintiff.

1933 Los Angeles Sentinel founded by Leon H. Washington.

1933 Spingarn Medal presented to YMCA secretary Max Yergan for his achievements as a missionary in South Africa, "representing the gift of cooperation...American Negroes may send back to their Motherland."

1959 Lester Young, jazz musician, dies.

1980 Scores injured in Klan-related incidents in Georgia, Tennessee, California, Indiana and North Carolina, in March and April.

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