Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Natalie Cole ! Singer, Bob Marley ! Actor, Robert Townsend ! Poet, Melvin B. Tolson ! NFL player, Jermaine Kearse !

Today in Afro History ! The murderer of civil rights activist Medgar Evers is finally convicted over thirty years later in 1994. Bob Douglas becomes the first Afro American inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1972 !