Black Fact = 1907 – Charles Henry Alston, American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. He was a painter famous for illustrating black contributions to medicine through a mural in the Harlem Hospital in New York, was born in Charlotte, NC, on this date in 1907. He was also active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African-American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. #theraydiotwins
