Not to be confused with the Reverend Paul Cuffee (1754-1812), who is honored on the liturgical Calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA).

Paul Cuffee or Paul Cuffe (January 17, 1759 – September 7, 1817) was a Quaker businessman, sea captain, patriot, and abolitionist. He was of Aquinnah Wampanoag and Ashanti descent and helped colonize Sierra Leone. Cuffe built a lucrative shipping empire and established the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts.[1]

A devout Christian, Cuffee often preached and spoke at the Sunday services at the multi-racial Society of Friends meeting house in Westport, Massachusetts.[2] In 1813, he donated most of the money to build a new meeting house. He became involved in the British effort to resettle freed slaves, many of whom had moved from the US to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution, to the fledgling colony of Sierra Leone. Cuffe helped establish The Friendly Society of Sierra Leone, which provided financial support for the colony.

The future mariner Paul Cuffee was born on January 17, 1759, during the French and Indian War, on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. He was the youngest son of Kofi or Cuffee Slocum and Ruth Moses. Pauls father, Kofi, was a member of the Ashanti ethnic-group from Ashanti.[3] Kofi had been captured at age ten and brought as a slave to the British colony of Massachusetts. His owner, John Slocum, could not reconcile slave ownership with his own Quaker values and gave Kofi his freedom in the mid-1740s. Kofi took the name Cuffee Slocum and, in 1746, he married Ruth Moses.[4] Ruth was a Native American member of the Wampanoag Nation on Marthas Vineyard. Cuffee Slocum worked as a skilled carpenter, farmer and fisherman and taught himself to read and write. He worked diligently to earn enough money to buy a home and in 1766 bought a 116-acre (0.47 km2) farm in nearby Dartmouth, Massachusetts.[2] The couple would raise ten children together, of which Paul was the seventh in line.[5]

During Paul Cuffes infancy there was no Quaker meeting

Co-organizer of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, John Merrick was born

Zion AME Church dedicated in New York City.

For the first short film for one of five consecutive record-breaking No. 1 hits from Bad, Michael Jackson and director Martin Scorsese created an epic 18-minute tale of urban and racial challenges in the 1980s. Bad was named the second greatest of Michaels short films by Rolling Stone in 2014.

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Written and Composed by Michael Jackson

Produced by Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Productions

Co-Produced by Michael Jackson for MJJ Productions, Inc.

From the album Bad, released August31, 1987

Released as a single September 7, 1987

THE SHORT FILM

Director: Martin Scorsese

Primary Production Location: New York City, New York

Michael Jacksons short film for Bad was the first of nine short films produced for recordings from Bad, one of the best selling albums of all time. The Bad single hit No. 1 in three countries in 1987, topping the charts in the United States, Spain and the Netherlands and reaching Top 5 in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. In the U.S., Bad was the second of five consecutive No. 1 singles from one album on the Billboard Hot 100-making Michael the first artist to achieve this milestone.

Inspired by the real-life story of Edmund Perry, a prep school graduate from Harlem whose shooting death by a plainclothes policeman galvanized New York City, Bad stars Michael as Darryl, a student returning to his inner-city home while on break from a prestigious academy. In the short films extended black and white sequence, Darryl comes into conflict with his neighborhood friends (led by actor Wesley Snipes in a breakthrough role) after showing discomfort over their attempts at petty crime. Angrily dismissed by his friends for no longer being bad, Darryl challenges them in an abandoned subway station. As the film suddenly transitions to color,

In 1930, Sonny Rollins, a powerful force in jazz, is born.

Reuben Earl Brigety II is a naval officer, educator, international humanitarian specialist, and diplomat. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on September 7, 1973, to Dr. Barbara and Dr. Rueben Brigety Sr. In 1965 his father became the first African American to graduate from the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.

Brigety is a distinguished midshipman graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1995. While in the Navy, he held several staff positions, including speechwriter and analyst in the Pentagon. He later won a scholarship to pursue a Master’s in International Relations at the University of Cambridge in England, which he earned in 1997 before returning to active duty. Upon deciding to return to pursue his doctoral degree in international affairs, Brigety received a discharge from the Navy in 2000 after which he returned to Cambridge where he earned his doctoral degree in 2003. During these early professional and educational endeavors, he honed his expertise in human rights issues and African affairs.

Dr. Brigety worked as a researcher for Human Rights Watch’s Arms Division, conducting field work in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to 2003, followed by assistant professor postings at George Mason University and American University from 2003 to 2009. He also consulted with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Office of Emergency Operations’ Humanitarian Policy Unit, in 2004.

From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Brigety was special assistant to the assistant administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Simultaneously, he was director for the Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress and a senior advisor for Civil-Military Affairs for the Joint Strategic Assessment Team at the U.S. Central Command in Washington, D.C., and in Doha, Qatar, from 2008 to 2009.

From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Brigety served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the department’s Bureau of Population,

Tupac Shakur (also known by his stage name of 2Pac) was legendary rap and hip-hop musician. He was born in New York City in 1971 to Billy Garland and Afeni Shakur, both activists of a revolutionary black nationalist organization named “Black Panthers”. His name, Tupac Amaru Shakur, means “shining serpent”. His mother was in jail when she was expecting Tupac, but she was later acquitted of all charges. His father was largely absent from his life. He grew up in the Bronx and Harlem, where he faced the grim realities of gang life, violence, drugs and sexual abuse at an early age. He joined a theater company by the name of 127th Street Ensemble, where he learned to act.

He also attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where he learned ballet and other forms of dance. As a teenager, he moved with his family to the West Coast where he joined the hip-hop and rap group Digital Underground. He recorded two albums with them, that is, “This is an E.P.” and “Sons of the P” before leaving the group to go solo. In 1991, he was signed by the label “Interscope Records” and shortly released his debut album “Tupacalypse Now”. Although, it did not make it to the Top 10 charts, it definitely helped him to make his presence felt. In fact, this album has been quoted by many famous rappers to be their inspiration, including Eminem and Nas. The album had a very real, underground feel to it and included the hit single “Brenda’s Got a Baby”.

His second studio album was released in February 1993 and titled “Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.”. The album debuted at number 24 on the Billboard 200 and the deep, meaningful and sometimes excessively profane lyrics were both the subject of praise, as well as controversy. Tupac spoke of his political and social views in his songs, and described the thug life he used to live. The album was commercially successful, and achieved Platinum status. Tupac also formed the group “Thug Life” with some of his friends. The group released one album called “Thug Life: Volume 1” which achieved Gold status. Tupac’s

the Hon Louise Bennett-Coverley is regarded as the mother of storytelling in the Caribbean. a jamaican , Miss Lou, as she is affectionately known studied at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts as a result of British Council Scholarship. She had her own BBC Radio programme called Caribbean Carnival. Among her many awards is the Doctorate of Literature from the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Award for Excellence. Miss Lou is retired from active stage work and lives in Toronto with her husband, Eric Coverley, who discovered the young Louise while he worked as an impressario.

On this day, Ghana becomes a free self-governing nation. This country will be the first of the British Commonwealth of Nations to be self-governing.

The start of Integration for MD public schools, and Washington DC public school, 1954