1949 - 1970s actress, Pamala Suzette Grier was born in Winston-Salem. May 26

Today in Blackness: 1926 - Miles Davis May 25

1944 - Patricia Louise Holte is born. We know her better as the Grammy award winning artist and pie icon, Patti LaBelle. May 24

1981 - Reggae legend Robert Nesta Marley passes away at age 36. May 23

1743 - Touissant L'Ouverture was born. He led the ONLY revolution to ever win an enslaved people their freedom. May 20

1925 - Malcolm Little AKA Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska. May 19

1896 - U.S. Supreme Court rules upholding the doctrine of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson. This begins the age of Jim Crow. May 18

1954 - U.S. Supreme Court in landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional May 17

1966 - Happy Birthday Ms. Jackson. Music superstar and actress Janet Jackson born. May 16

1950 - Steveland Judkins was born in Saginaw, Michigan. We know him better as Stevie Wonder. May 13

1862 - Robert Smalls steals the Confederate ship, the Planter, and delivers it to Union forces. May 12

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1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated the first democratically elected President of South Africa. May 10

1750 - Caesar, a South Carolina slave is granted his freedom and a life time annuity in exchange for his cures for poison and rattlesnake bite. May 9

1969 - Moneta Sleet earns the first Pulitzer Prize by an African American May 4

1845 - Macon B. Allen becomes the first Black lawyer admitted to the bar, after passing his examination at Worcester, Massachusetts. May 4

1920 - The inaugural game of the National Negro Baseball League is played

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1969 - Moneta Sleet earns the first Pulitzer Prize by an African American May 4

1845 - Macon B. Allen becomes the first Black lawyer admitted to the bar, after passing his examination at Worcester, Massachusetts. May 4

1920 - The inaugural game of the National Negro Baseball League is played

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