Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, George Hill ! NFL player, James Harrison ! Singer, Jackie Jackson ! NBA player, Victor Oladipo ! Jamaican Singer, Jacob Miller !

Today in Afro History ! Jamaican saxophonist Cedric Brooks passes away in 2013. The Supreme Court ruling in 1948, Shelley vs. Kraemer, stating that covenants prohibiting Afro Americans from purchasing real estate, are legally unenforceable.