Today’s Afro Birthday ! NBA player, C. J. Watson ! Actress, Lela Rochon ! Rapper Redman ! Actress, Kimberly Elise ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington DC (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Washington D.C. abolishes slavery in 1862 ! ( The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act). was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ! Actor, Martin Lawrence ! NFL player, Dick “Night Train” Lane ! Singer, Akon ! Singer, Roy Hamilton ! NBA player, Luol Deng ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
Booker T. Washington, half-length portrait, seated (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Digitally retouched. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Booker T. Washington receives honorary degree from Harvard University in 1896 ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Blues singer, Bessie Smith ! Civil Rights Activist, A. Philip Randolph ! Chicago Mayor, Harold Washington ! Sprinter, Evelyn Ashford ! Actor, Flex Alexander ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
English: Anthony Benezet instructing colored children Français : Anthoine Bénézet instruisant des enfants de couleur (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Am I not a man emblem used during the campaign to abolish slavery. The image is from a book from 1788, so there can be no effective copyright. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The Pennsylvania Abolition Society ( the first abolition society) founded by Anthony Benezet and others in 1775 ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Joe Haden ! WNBA player, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke ! Jazz Saxophonist, Gene Ammons ! Rapper, Da Brat ! Actor, Antwon Tanner ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
Tiger Woods stand in front of the Joint Armed Forces Color Guard during the ending ceremony preceding the inaugural Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am Tournament, part of the AT&T National PGA Tour event, July 4, 2007, at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, MD. The tournament event is in honor of soldiers and military families. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Actor Sidney Poitier receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on August 12, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By United States Department of the Interior National Park Service
Today in Afro History ! Sidney Poitier becomes first Afro American to win Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964 ! Tiger Woods becomes the first Afro American to win a Golf Major in 1997 ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Al Green ! Singer, Peabo Bryson ! NFL player, Josh Gordon ! NBA player, Baron Davis ! NBA player, Tony Wroten ! was last modified: April 6th, 2024 by Marc Alexander