Black History x #TDIF This Day In Freshness Feb 11, 2013 #FreshRadio RIP Whitney Elizabeth Houston x Happy Bornday Brandy

11 February 2013 TDIF

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1.	1990 – Nelson Mandela is released Nelson Mandela’s greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky playing. Locked up in his cell during daylight hours, deprived of music, both these simple pleasures were denied him for decades. With his fellow prisoners, concerts were organised when possi…
2.	1989 – Penn’s 1996 Baccalaureate Speaker is The Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harri Penn’s 1996 Baccalaureate Speaker is The Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion. Bishop Harris entered the priesthood after a long and successful career in public and community relations in Philadelphia between 1949 and 1977. O…
3.	1976 – Clifford Alexander Jr Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African American Secretary of the Army. He will hold the position until the end of President Jimmy Carter’s term.
4.	1971 – Whitney Young Jr., National Urban League director, Whitney M. Young, Jr. was Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 until his tragic, untimely death in 1971. He worked tireless to bring the races together, and joined the tenets of social work, of which he was an outstanding practitioner, to the social activism that brought the Urban League into the f…
5.	1961 – February 11, Robert Weaver sworn in as February 11, Robert Weaver sworn in as administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, highest federal post to date by a Black American.
6.	1898 – Owen L. W. Smith – minister to Liberia Owen L. W. Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister and educator, named minister to Liberia.
7.	1783 – Jarena Lee was born The daughter of former slaves, born in Cape May, New Jersey. Jarena Lee is the considered the first female preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1836, she published her autobiography, THe Life and Religious Experiences, of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gos…
8.	1644 – First Black legal protest in America pressed by First Black legal protest in America pressed by eleven Blacks who petitioned for freedom in New Netherlands (New York). Council of New Netherlands freed the eleven petitioners because they had “served the Company seventeen or eighteen years” and had been “long since promised their freedom on the same footing as other …

Fresh In Paradise to the legend, the voice Whitney Houston 

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, theGuinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time.^[1] Houston was one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 200 million records worldwide.^[2] She released six studio albums, one holiday album and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston’s crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for “How Will I Know“,^[3] influenced several African American female artists to follow in her footsteps.^[4][5]

Check Fresh Radio throughout the day with Tribute mixes and songs dedicated to Whitney!!!

Happy Birthday to Brandy Norwood!

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