Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Will Smith ! NBA player, Scottie Pippen ! Rapper, T.I. ! NBA player, Chauncey Billups ! NFL player, Aldon Smith !

Today in Afro History ! Nine Afro American students were escorted by the U.S. Army into Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. This Forced desegregation was ordered by Dwight D. Eisenhower after angry protesters had them removed on their first day of school in 1957 !