Singer Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on this day in 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She is most known for her many hit singles, including Grammy winners ‘The first time I saw your Face’, and ‘Killing Me Softly with his Song’.
Ronald Harmon Brown became the first African American to be elected the Chair of the Democratic National Committee on this day in 1989. His abilities helped unify the democratic party's support of Bill Clinton for president. He became secretary of commerce under President Clinton in 1993.
Mary Violet Leontyne Price, soprano and leading performer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, was born on this day in 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi. On January 27, 1961, Price's NYC Metropolitan Opera House debut as Leonora in Il Trovatore yielded a 35-minute standing ovation!
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, writer, journalist, and the author of ROOTS: The Saga of an American Family, dies on this day in 1992 in Seattle, Washington.
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