Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Toni Braxton ! Bishop, Desmond Tutu ! Nation Of Islam Leader, Elijah Muhammad ! Actress, Nicole Ari Parker ! NFL player, Charles Woodson ! Activist, Amiri Baraka !

English: Nicole Ari Parker at a performance of The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker in December 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Desmond Tutu 2007 at the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag in Cologne 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Elijah Muhammad standing behind microphones at podium / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Amiri Baraka addressing the Malcom X Festival in San Antonio Park, Oakland, California (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today in Afro History ! Iowa State University’s first Afro American football player, Jack Trice suffered fatal injuries during a game in 1923. He died two days later.
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player/coach, Tony Dungy ! MLB player, Darren Oliver ! NFL player, Richard Seymour ! Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer ! Singer, Millie Small ! NFL player, Chris Mathews !

Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights leader, at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts football team, arrives onboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) via helicopter. (Cropped from a U.S. Navy photograph) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today in Afro History ! Barry Bonds breaks single season home run record by hitting his 71 and 72 home run in 2001 !

Barry Bonds at the plate against the Cubs. According to Yahoo sports and the image’s Flickr Page, Michael Barrett is behind Bonds (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player. Grant Hill ! Comedian, Bernie Mac ! Singer, Heather Headley ! Singer, Brooke Valentine !
Today in Afro History ! Basutoland, which was renamed” The Kingdom of Lesotho”, gains independence from The United Kingdom in 1966 !

File showing the locations of the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Republic of South Africa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Derrick Rose ! Music Producer, Russell Simmons ! NBA player, A.C. Green ! Actor, Clifton Davis ! NBA player, James Jones !

Derrick Rose #1 of the Chicago Bulls at the Verizon Center on February 28, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today in Afro History ! O.J. Simpson is acquitted of murder in 1995. Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in 1993.

Michael Durant’s helicopter (Super64) heading out over Mogadishu on October 3, 1993. Super64 was the second helicopter to crash on the Battle of Mogadishu. Ranger Mike Goodale rode on this helicopter before the battle erupted. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
NBC Sports commentator and former professional football player O. J. Simpson sits with a group of servicemen to watch a Thanksgiving Day football game. Simpson is visiting U.S. troops who are in the region for Operation Desert Shield. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cropped from Football star/actor/accused murderer O.J. Simpson, with his daughter, Sydney Brooke Simpson, at the Kahala Hilton Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aerial view, right side profile, of a US Marine helicopter as it flies over a MOGADISHU residential area on a patrol mission to look for signs of hostilities. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, India Arie ! Civil Rights Activist, Al Sharpton ! NFL player, Anquan Boldin ! Singer, Chubby Checker !
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Today in Afro History ! Thurgood Marshall bcomes the first Afro American U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1967 ! Guinea declares its independence from France in 1958 !

Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Guinea (orthographic projection) Português: Guiné (projeção ortográfica) Español: Guinea (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Avery Brooks ! NBA player, Tyson Chandler ! Slave revolt leader, Nat Turner ! Lawyer, Johnny Cochran ! Gospel Singer, Mandisa !

English: Improved version of the logo for Template:North American Slave Revolts, using the same public domain image, created in photoshop. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Joe Black becomes the first Afro American pitcher to win a World Series Game in 1952 ! Muhammad Ali Defeats Joe Frazier in Manilla Philippines called ” The Thriller in Manilla ” in 1975 !

English: Bust portrait of Muhammad Ali, World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Rosenberg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Joe Black in a 1953 issue of Baseball Digest. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Joe Frazier was awarded the Order of the Palmetto in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)