Earl Ingram Jr.

Black History Facts:

• 30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof's "Race Against Time
  30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof's "Race Against Time" to raise money for the starving in Africa.
• Young Black woman, Jo Etha Collier, killed in
  Young Black woman, Jo Etha Collier, killed in Drew, Miss., by bullet fired from passing car. Three whites were arrested on May 26 and charged with the unprovoked attack.
• Jamaica Kincaid Born
  Novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid was born on this day in Antigua. Ms. Kincaid will pen novels such as "Annie John" and "Lucy".
• Henrietta Bradberry patents Bed Rack
  Bradberry invented the "Bed Rack", Patent No. 2,320,027 on May 25, 1943, to attach to the bed frame and allow the bed clothes to hang on it while allowing the bed to air out.
• Riot at Mobile, Ala., shipyard over the upgrading
  Riot at Mobile, Ala., shipyard over the upgrading of twelve Black workers.