Black Fact = 1988 (November 16) – Novelist, Toni Morrison, won the “Elmer Holmes Bobst Award” in Arts and Letters for her book, Beloved, on this date. #theraydiotwins
TRT-BLACKFACT = (1937) Bessie Smith
Black Fact = 1937 – Singer Bessie Smith dies of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, ...