Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Heavyweight Champion, Lennox Lewis ! NBA player, Nate Archibald ! Coach/Sportscaster, John Thompson ! Singer, K-Ci ! Singer, Syleena Johnson ! Musician, Billy Preston !
Today in Afro History ! George Coleman Poage becomes the first Afro American to win a medal in an Olympic Games. He won two bronze medals in the 1904 Olympics !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Sidney Rice ! NBA player, Tim Hardaway ! Actress, Zendaya Coleman ! NFL player, Clinton Portis ! Actor, Ron O’Neal ! Singer, Skye Townsend ! Actress, Anita Bush !

English: Sidney Rice, while a member of the Minnesota Vikings, at the Vikings’ 2009 Training Camp, Mankato, Minnesota, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Trinidad and Tobago gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1962 ! Lionel Hampton passes away in 2002.

The Chaconia (Warszewiczia coccinea) is the national flower of Trinidad and Tobago. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Trinidad and Tobago (orthographic projection) Español: Trinidad y Tobago (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Chris Tucker ! Hurdler, Edwin Moses ! MLB player/Coach, Frank Robinson ! NFL player, Larry Fitzgerald ! Activist/BPP member, Eldridge Cleaver ! Actress, Shar Jackson !

English: Cincinnati Reds player and Hall of Famer Frank Robinson in a 1961 issue of Baseball Digest. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Arizona Cardinals football player Larry Fitzgerald gives a child a high five at the Child Development Center on Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: American civil rights leader and Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Shar Jackson at Kitson and Christopher Brian Resort Collection Launch Event Français : Shar Jackson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Thurgood Marshall becomes the first Afro American Supreme Court Justice in 1967 ! Guion Bluford becomes the first Afro American in space in 1983 !

Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Former NAACP Executive Director, Roy Wilkins ! NBA player, Robert Parish ! Actress, Michael Michele ! NFL player, Derrick Ward ! Saxophonist, Gerald Albright !
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English: Derrick Ward, a player on the Houston Texans American football team. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The Black Panther Party has confrontation with Philadelphia police resulting in one police officers death in 1970. Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobbs stolen base record in 1977 !

Original six members of the Black Panther Party (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert “Big Man” Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Black Panther Party members standing in the street, armed with a Colt .45 and a shotgun (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Michael Jackson ! Musician, Charlie Parker ! Singer, Dinah Washington ! Actress, Isabel Sanford ! NBA player, David West !

Portrait of Charlie Parker, Tommy Potter, Miles Davis, and Max Roach, Three Deuces, New York, N.Y. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King gives his ” I have a dream speech” at the March on Washington in 1963 !

English: Dr. Martin Luther King giving his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on 28 August 1963. Español: Dr. Martin Luther King dando su discurso “Yo tengo un sueño” durante la Marcha sobre Washington por el trabajo y la libertad en Washington, D.C., 28 de agosto de 1963. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)