Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Activist/Jounalist, Ida B. Wells ! NFL legend, Barry Sanders ! Activist/BPP Member/BLA Member, Assata Shakur ! NBA player, Zach Randolph ! Actress, Rain Pryor !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Forest Whitaker ! Actress, Shari Headley ! NBA player, Damian Lillard ! NBA player, Tobias Harris ! Singer, Millie Jackson ! Comedian, Eddie Griffin !
Today in Afro History ! The George Washington Carver National Monument opens in 1953, making it the first National Monument dedicated to an Afro American ! John Standard patents an improvement to the refrigerator in 1891 !

English: George Washington Carver, American botanist and inventor, at work in his laboratory Français : George Washington Carver, botaniste américain et inventeur, au travail dans son laboratoire Original caption: Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/3, file “II. Photographs–Carver, George Washington,” USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: George Washington Carver (front row, center) poses with fellow staff members at the Tuskegee Institute (now known as Tuskegee University) located in the U.S. state of Alabama. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Picture of George Washington Carver taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1906 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Darrelle Revis ! Golfer, Lee Elder ! NFL player, Rolando McClain ! Singer, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle !

Derrelle Rivas at the Sorcerer Hat Stage during ESPN The Weekend, February 26, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Rolando McClain, a player on the Oakland Raiders American football team. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Arthur Ashe is inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer/ Deborah Cox ! Singer/ Gerald Levert ! Actress/ Daphne Maxwell Reid ! Boxer, Michael Spinks !
Today in Afro History ! The 1967 Newark riots erupted because of police racial profiling, lack of quality education and jobs. Ended on july 17 after 26 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Comedian/Actor Bill Cosby ! Actress/ Beah Richards ! NFL player, LeSean McCoy ! Actress, Lisa Nicole Carson !

061003-N-0000K-001 Dr. William H. “Bill” Cosby speaks at Frederick Douglass High School during his visit to the school. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The Niagara Movement is founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1905.

Left: Niagara Movement leaders W.E.B. Du Bois (seated), and (left to right) J.R. Clifford, L.M. Hershaw, and F.H.M. Murray at Harpers Ferry. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Women at the 1906 Niagara Movement Conference at Harpers Ferry: Mrs. Gertrude Wright Morgan (seated) and (left to right) Mrs. O.M. Waller, Mrs. H.F.M. Murray, Mrs. Mollie Lewis Kelan, Mrs. Ida D. Bailey, Miss Sadie Shorter, and Mrs. Charlotte Hershaw. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Patrick Peterson ! Boxer, Leon Spinks ! Actress, Kellita Smith ! NFL player, Andre Johnson ! Actress, Cassi Davis ! Singer, Bonnie Pointer ! NFL player, Jacoby Jones ! Rapper Lil Kim !

English: Lil’ Kim, Actor, Grammy Award winning, American multi-platinum rapper. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)