Black History Facts 8/1

• •Chuck D •Professor Griff - Rapper

• •Coolio - Rapper (d. 2022)

• •Tempestt Bledsoe - Actress

• •Cymphonique Miller - Artist

• •Elijah Kelley - Actor

• •Geoffrey Holder -Actor (d. 2014)

• •Leon Thomas III,- Artist

• •Charles Malik Whitfield - Actor

• •Trevor Berbick - Boxer (d. 2006)

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• Happy Black August 🎉Black August is a month long celebration which began in the 1970s created by Black freedom fighters to observe & honor those who died fighting for Black liberation 

• 1834 📚Canada's Emancipation Day. The day Slavery ended in the British empire

• 1960🎾Arthur Ashe, 1st Black male to win Wimbledon, he also becomes the 1st Black person named to the US Davis Cup team