Today in Afro History ! Dr. Betty Shabazz, (wife of Malcolm X) passes away in 1997.
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Olympic Gold Medalist, Wilma Rudolph ! NFL player, LaDainian Tomlinson ! NFL player Tony Hill ! Music Producer/ TV Personality, Randy Jackson !

Wilma Rudolph at the finish line during 50 yard dash at track meet in Madison Square Garden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Aaron Anderson is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1865 ! Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1938 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Dancer/Choreographer/Activist, Katherine Dunham ! NBA player, Clyde Drexler ! NFL player Champ Bailey ! Actor, Tim Russ ! NBA player, Danny Green ! Actor, Donald Faison ! Former President of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings !

Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, anthropologist, author, educator and activist. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Danny Green of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Washington Wizards v/s Cleveland Cavaliers November 18, 2009 at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Former president of Ghana Jerry Rawlings, speaking at the Oxford Law Faculty. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Champ Bailey, a player on the Denver Broncos American football team. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Mississippi by Klu Klux Klan in 1964.
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner ! Singer, Brenda Holloway ! Politician, Joseph Haynes Rainey ! Rapper, Pete Rock ! NBA player, Derrick Coleman ! NBA player, Thaddeus Young !

Joseph Rainey. Library of Congress description: “Rainey, Hon. Joseph Hayne of S.C.”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Brenda Holloway performing at a memorial tribute for the late Tommy Jacquette, founder of the Watts Summer Festival on Saturday, 28 Nov 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Muhammad Ali is convicted of draft evasion after refusing induction into the armed services in 1967 ! Harry Belafonte become the first Afro American to win an Emmy in 1960 !

English: Bust portrait of Muhammad Ali, World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Rosenberg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Lionel Richie ! Actress, Tika Sumpter ! NFL player, Darren Sproles ! Actress, Serayah McNeill !

English: Lionel Richie performing on stage on his 2011 Australian and New Zealand concert tour. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Darren Sproles, a player on the San Diego Chargers American football team. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! 2 years after The Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston Texas are finally informed of their freedom in 1865 . Celebrated as “Juneteenth” !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actress, Zoe Saldana ! Actress, Phylicia Rashad ! Middle Distance Runner, Johnny Gray !

Zoe Saldana strikes a pose at the 82nd Academy Awards, March 7, in Hollywood, Calif. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Actress Phylicia Rashad in the 2007 Red Dress Collection for The Heart Truth Foundation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! U.S. Supreme Court bans housing discrimination in 1968, known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Signed into law by President Johnson. 3,000 Afro American Students boycott Boston Public schools over the quality of their education in 1963 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Nathan Morris ! Broadway Actor, Avon Long ! NFL player, Bruce Smith ! NFL player, Antonio Gates ! South African President, Thabo Mbeki ! NFL player, Chris Harris !

CAPE TOWN/SOUTH AFRICA, June 4, 2008 – Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa, captured during the Opening Plenary of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, June 4, 2008. Copyright World Economic Forum/Eric Miller (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Chris Harris, a National Football League player on the Denver Broncos American football team (2011- ). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)