June 16, 1971 Tupac Amaru Shakur, hip hop rapper and actor, was born in New York City. Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II, a Peruvian revolutionary who led an indigenous uprising against Spain and was subsequently executed. In 1986, his family moved to Baltimore where Shakur attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and […]
Archive | June 16, 2011
June 16th in African American History – The Soweto Children’s Uprising
June 16, 1976 The Soweto Children’s Uprising started in South Africa. On that day school children in Soweto protested the imposition of the Afrikanns language for instruction. Before they could disperse, police opened fire on the students. Before it was over, 23 people died. A news photograph of a dying Hector Pieterson, killed at the […]