The United Negro College Fund, now just UNCF, is the fundraising arm of all the private HBCUs in the United States. It was organized on this day in 1944. As its motto notes, ‘A mind is a Terrible thing to waste”.


Ella Jane Fitzgerald, jazz singer was born on this day in 1917 in Newport News, Virginia.

On this day in 1950, Charles Henry ‘Chuck’ Cooper became the first Black player drafted by a National Basketball Association (NBA) team, the Boston Celtics.
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