Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Sportscaster, Stuart Scott ! NBA player LaMarcus Aldridge ! Poet/Journalist/Activist, Alice Dunbar Nelson ! Actor, Trai Byers !

Today in Afro History ! The first U.S Army flying school for Afro American cadets is formed in 1941. Based in Tuskegee Alabama, the 99th Pursuit Squadron later became known as the Tuskegee Airmen !