Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Giancarlo Esposito ! Singer, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins ! Singer, Avant ! Jamaican Sprinter, Novlene Williams-Mills !

Today in Afro History ! The United Negro College fund is Founded in 1944 ! Charles “Chuck” Cooper becomes the first Afro American player to be drafted by an NBA team ! He was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 1950.