#TDIF This Day In Freshness x #BlackHistory Feb. 01 2013

1 February 2013 TDIF

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	1997 – First 24-Hour Black Movie Channel BET Holdings and Encore Media Corp. launch BET Movie/Starz the first 24 hour Black Movie channel.
2.	1990 – Original Sit-In Revisited In Greensboro, North Carolina, Joseph McNeil, Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Blair), Franklin McCain and David Richond repeated the original sit-in of 30 years prior, by having breakfast at the Greensboro Woolworth store.
3.	1990 – Ida Wells Postage Stamp Issued Ida Wells, a black reformer who compiled records on lynching, is the subject of a United States Postal Service stamp.
4.	1937 – Actor/Comedian Garrett Morris born Actor/Comedian Garrett Morris, formerly of Saturday Night Live, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
5.	1902 – Langston Hughes One of the most famous poets, Langston Hughes was born in the year 1902. Hughes came from the Harlem Renaissance, the early stages of the Black Arts Movement. Hughes was well known in the streets of Harlem, making him one of the greatest poets of all time. Before his death in 1967, he wrote fifteen collectio…
6.	1887 – J. Robinson patents food carrier Robinson, J. Dinner Pail Feb. 01, 1887 Patent No. 356,852
7.	1871 – 1st Black to Speak in US House of Representatives Jefferson Long of Georgia became the first Black to make an official speech in the House of Representatives. He opposed leniency to former Confederates.
8.	1865 – First African American Before US Supreme Court John Sweat Rock (1825-1866), a noted Boston lawyer, became in 1865 the first African-American to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black person to speak before the U.S. House of Representatives.
9.	1865 – Ratification of the 13th Amendment The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, was adopted by the 38th Congress. Ratification was completed December 6, 1865.
10.	1834 – Henry McNeal Turner Born Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was “bound out” to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmith’s trade in Abbeville until his “manhood” at age 12. He possessed an insatiable craving fo…

February 1st – The Fugees release their debut album “Blunted On Reality” on Ruffhouse Records, on this day in 1994.

The official name of the group at the time was Fugees Tranzlator Crew who then shortened it to The Fugees by the time of the release of their second album “The Score” in 1996.

“Blunted On Reality” would mesh hip-hop with reggae as well as pop and was fueled by 5% teachings and rasta rhetoric.

“Blunted On Reality” was produced by The Fugees along with Salaam Remi, Rashad Muhammad, Stephen Walker, Brand X and Khalis Bayyan a.k.a. Ronald “Kool” Bell of Kool & The Gang.

The Fugees were powered by the soulful vocals and more than capable rhyme talents of Lauryn Hill and the unique rhyme style of Wyclef Jean and Praz who also proudly flaunted their Haitian origins when previous American rappers of Haitian background hid their roots.

“Blunted On Reality” spawned the hits “Nappy Heads”, Boom Baf” and “Vocab”, whose remix became a huge cult favorite.

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