Today in Afro History ! Booker T. Washington becomes the first Afro American to have his picture put on U.S. Postage Stamp in 1940 !
Photograph of Booker Washington and Theodore Roosevelt at Tuskegee Institute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By US Post Office – US Post Office / Gwillhickers
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Billie Holiday ! NFL player, Tony Dorsett ! Comedian, Bill Bellamy ! NFL player, Tiki Barber !
English: Billie Holiday and her dog Mister, backstage dressing room, probably at the Downbeat, NYC (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pitt Football Alums Tony Dorsett at Gino Torretta’s Charity Event – Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, March 7, 2009 (Photo by OPENSports.com) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By William P. Gottlieb
Billie Holiday
Today in Afro History ! Matthew A. Henson served as navigator to a small group of explorers that were the first to reach the North Pole in 1909 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Billy Dee Williams ! NFL player, Sterling Sharpe ! Actor, Sinqua Walls !
By Florida SuperconToday in Afro History ! Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlains career scoring Record of 31,419 points in 1984 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Author/Educator, Booker T. Washington ! Former Secretary of State / U.S Army General, Colin Powell !

English: Via Library of Congress. See catalog.loc.gov. Booker T. Washington, seated on steps of porch, with wife and two sons. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Harris & Ewing
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the only time the two men ever met; their meeting lasted only one minute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Poet/Author, Maya Angelou ! Singer, Jill Scott ! NBA player Ben Gordon ! Blues Musician, Muddy Waters ! MLB player, Cameron Maybin !
President Barack Obama presenting Maya Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Ben Gordon of the Detroit Pistons during a game against the Milwaukee Bucks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Simba Madziva – Jill Scott
By Clinton Library
Maya Angelou
Today in Afro History ! Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce dies in plane crash in 1996 !

Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Eddie Murphy ! Singer, Kelly Price ! NFL player, Kam Chancellor !
By David ShankboneToday in Afro History ! John Thompson becomes the first Afro American Head Coach to win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship in 1984 !
By Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum/White House











