Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Jevon Kearse ! NBA player, Damon Stoudamire ! Civil rights lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston !
Today in Afro History ! Rev. Al Sharpton leads a protest march in Bensonhurst Brooklyn over the death of Yusef Hawkins in 1989. Oberlin College founded in 1833.

The Reverend Al Sharpton leading the first protest march over the death of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, 1989. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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)