On August 21, 1950, officials of the United States Lawn
Tennis Association accepted Althea Gibson into their
annual championship at Forest Hills, New York, making
her the first African American player to compete in a U.S.
national tennis competition.

Althea Neale Gibson
(August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003

Gibson survived a heart attack in 2003, but died on
September 28 that year from complications following
respiratory and bladder infections. Her body was
interred in the Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New
Jersey, near her first husband, Will.

Statue of Gibson by Thomas Jay Warren in Newark, New
Jersey, near the courts (in background) on which she ran
clinics for young players in her later years.

Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter
(left) and Jack Schlossberg, grandson to former president
John F. Kennedy (right).

Grandsons of two former presidents praise VP Harris during DNC speech: ‘Torch has been passed.’

On or about August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped
by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and
are then bought by English colonists.

The exact date is not definitively known (a letter from the time
identified the ship’s arrival coming in "the latter part of August"),
but this date has been chosen by many to mark the arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World—beginning two and a half
centuries of slavery in North America.

Located at Mount Hotzvim in Jerusalem, a large quarry has been
under excavation, exposing more information on the Second
Temple time period when Jesus walked the Holy Land.

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority excavated
the area that covers about 3,500 square meters, forming part
of a large field of quarries, according to a press release from
the Israel Antiquities Authority.

They have uncovered dozens of building stones of various
sizes, different paths and tools.

A stone tool identified with the Jewish population in the
Second Temple was discovered in the quarry located in Jerusalem.

Phillip John Donahue (December 21, 1935 – August 18, 2024)

WASHINGTON (TND) — The host and creator of the"The Phil
Donahue Show" died Sunday after a lengthy illness.

According to a family statement, the television pioneer died 
at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.