Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Jazz Singer, Ella Fitzgerald ! NBA player, Tim Duncan ! Harlem Globetrotter, Meadowlark Lemon ! NFL player, DeAngelo Williams !

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.