Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Joe Haden ! WNBA player, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke ! Jazz Saxophonist, Gene Ammons ! Rapper, Da Brat ! Actor, Antwon Tanner !

Today in Afro History ! Sidney Poitier becomes first Afro American to win Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964 ! Tiger Woods becomes the first Afro American to win a Golf Major in 1997 !