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)
By derivative work Gerald Johnson – O.J._Simpson_1990
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, India Arie ! Civil Rights Activist, Al Sharpton ! NFL player, Anquan Boldin ! Singer, Chubby Checker !
India Arie By Chris Hakkens
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)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Soccer player, George Weah ! Singer, Donny Hathaway ! Singer, Howard Hewett ! Actress, Sherri Saum ! Actor, Hakeem Kae-Kazim !

English: Created by Bobbi Miller-Moro, Picture of Sherri Saum, actress in the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The Republic of Botswana gains its independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 !

Bushmen in Deception Valley, Botswana demonstrating how to start a fire by rubbing sticks together. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Location of Botswana Español: Mapa de Botsuana Suomi: Botswanan sijainti (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Residence hall of the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Frankie Lymon ! Singer, Cissy Houston ! Singer, Marilyn McCoo ! Singer, Patrice Rushen ! Singer, Miki Howard ! WNBA player, Bria Hartley ! Singer, T-Pain !
English: T-Pain at E3, Los Angeles, CA on June 7, 2011 – Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The first Afro American owned TV station ( WGPR-TV) begins airing in Detroit Michigan in 1975 !

WGPR station ID, 1980s. Variations of this “rainbow” logo would be used until CBS purchased it in 1995. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)