Brooklyn Today: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Good morning. Today is the 25th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1896) of early African-American singer and dancer Florence Mills. She appeared in several all-black shows on Broadway in the 1920s, including Shuffle Along, Plantation Review and From Dixie to Broadway. Mills was the first black woman to appear as a headliner at the Palace Theater, the number one showcase of vaudeville in the U.S. More than 100,000 people lined the streets for her funeral when she died of tuberculosis at the age of 31.
Well-known people who were born today include basketball player Vince Carter, singer-musician Alicia Keys, actress Leigh Taylor-Young, and actress Ann Ortiz (“Ugly Betty”).
This evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Cobble Hill Community Room, 250 Baltic St., the Youth/Human Services/Education Committee of Community Board 6 will meet in a strategy session to consider topics for future agendas. ¼ Today at 7:30 p.m., The Farm on Adderley, a restaurant at 1108 Cortelyou Road., will have a “pre-industrial dinner” of food prepared the way it was in the 19th century, when the surrounding area was farmland.