By Bogaerts, Rob / AnefoToday’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Natalie Cole ! Singer, Bob Marley ! Actor, Robert Townsend ! Poet, Melvin B. Tolson ! NFL player, Jermaine Kearse !
English: Bob Marley live in concert, just a couple of years before his death (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By dbkingToday in Afro History ! The murderer of civil rights activist Medgar Evers is finally convicted over thirty years later in 1994. Bob Douglas becomes the first Afro American inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1972 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! MLB player, Hank Aaron ! NFL player, Kelvin Benjamin ! Actor, Tim Meadows ! NBA player, Terrence Ross ! Singer, Bobby Brown !

English: Milwaukee Braves outfielder and Hall of Famer Hank Aaron in a 1960 issue of Baseball Digest. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today in Afro History ! Tony Dungy becomes the first Afro American head coach to win the Super Bowl in 2007 !
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’s Afro Birthdays ! Activist, Rosa Parks ! NFL player, Lawrence Taylor ! NFL player, Jerome Brown !
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Today in Afro History ! The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified in 1870, which granted voting rights regardless of race.
1870 celebration of the Fifteenth Amendment as a guarantee of African American voting rights (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Julio Jones ! Singer, Dennis Edwards ! NFL player, Andre Ellington ! NFL player, Dwayne Rudd !
By Bernie Ilson, Inc. – Cropped from file:The Temptations on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1968.
By Georgia National Guard – Flickr: Playoff Pass,Today in Afro History ! South African President, F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban against anti-apartheid groups such as the African National Congress and committed to releasing Nelson Mandela in 1990 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Donald Driver ! NBA player, Sean Elliot ! Singer/Musician, Al McKay ! Opera Singer, Simon Estes ! NFL player, C. J. Anderson !
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By Mike Morbeck – Flickr: Donald Driver,Today in Afro History ! Four Afro American students “The Greensboro Four” , stage the first sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro N.C. in 1960 !
A section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s where the Greensboro sit-ins began is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. A section of lunch counter now appears in the display of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. Counter from the Greensboro sit-ins. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By dbking from Washington, DC – Greensboro, NC “Sit In” 1960,
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The Greensboro Four
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Rick James ! Poet, Langston Hughes ! Actor, Sherman Hemsley ! MLB player, Austin Jackson ! Actor, Garrett Morris ! Actor, Lee Thompson Young !
English: Sherman Helmsley, taken at the Hustler Hollywood store on December 3, 1999 Photo courtesy of www.lukeisback.com, used with permission (see here). Image taken from the Wayback Machine’s archive of lukeford.com, viewable here (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Austin Jackson
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