Today in Afro History ! Mike Tyson defeats Frank Bruno to regain Heavyweight Title in 1996 !
Français : Boxer Mike Tyson in the ring at Las Vegas, Nevada, ca. October 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Mike Tyson at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Brian Birzer
Mike Tyson
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Nat King Cole ! Ex Slave/Politician, Benjamin Sterling Turner ! Singer, Tamar Braxton ! NFL player, Emmanuel Sanders ! NFL player, Cordarrelle Patterson ! NBA player, Thomas Robinson !
Publicity photo from the premiere of The Nat King Cole Show. Cole was the first African-American to host a program of this type. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Jeffrey Beall
By General Artists Corporation (management)Today in Afro History ! “Freedom’s Journal”, the first Afro American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. Founded in 1827 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Blake Griffin ! MLB player, Curtis Granderson Jr. ! NFL player, Ozzie Newsome ! NBA player, Tim Hardaway Jr. ! NFL player, Rodney Peete ! Rapper, Flavor Flav !
English: Flavor Flav from Public Enemy performing live at BBQ Beats, Riverstage Brisbane Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Curtis Granderson running during a game between the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles on August 28, 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Los Angeles Clippers Blake Griffin during a game against the Washington Wizards at the Verizon Center in Washington on March 12, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USAToday in Afro History ! Maurice Ashley becomes the first Afro American to receive the rank of International Grandmaster of Chess in 1999 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Sly Stone ! NFL head coach, Mike Tomlin ! NBA player, Jabari Parker ! NFL player, Tavon Austin !
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Jabari Parker
Today in Afro History ! African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in New York in 1821 !
By AgnosticPreachersKid at en.wikipedia
John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church located in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington D.C. Est. 1847
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Stephen Curry ! Music Producer, Quincy Jones ! NBA Player, Larry Johnson ! MLB player, Kirby Puckett ! NBA player, Anthony Bennett ! Actress, Elise Neal ! Actress, Penny Johnson Jerold !
By Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USAToday in Afro History ! Floyd Patterson knocks out Ingemar Johansson in 6th round of heavy weight title fight in 1961 !
By CBS TelevisionToday’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Caron Butler ! Jazz Musician, Roy Haynes ! Rapper, Common ! Actor, Fred “Rerun” Berry !
By Keith AllisonToday in Afro History ! Jazz musician Charlie “Bird” Parker passes away in 1955.
Portrait of Charlie Parker, Tommy Potter, Miles Davis, and Max Roach, Three Deuces, New York, N.Y. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Bird Lives,” (sculpture of Charlie “Bird” Parker) by Robert Graham (sculptor), 1999 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Charlie Parker residence on National Register of Historic Places in New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By William P. Gottlieb
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Al Jarreau ! MLB player, Darryl Strawberry ! Actor, Courtney B. Vance ! Politician, Andrew Young ! Singer, Tony Terry !
By Stig Ove Voll
Al Jarreau




