Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Activist/Author W.E.B Du Bois ! NBA player, Andrew Wiggins ! NFL player, Charles Tillman ! NFL player, Byron Maxwell ! NFL player, Ed “Too Tall” Jones ! Actress, Niecy Nash !
Niecy Nash at the 79th Annual Academy Awards Children Uniting Nations/Billboard afterparty. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 – 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1918. Deutsch: Der Soziologe William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963), Mitbegründer der afroamerikanischen Bürgerrechtsorganisation National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), aufgenommen 1918 von C.M. Battey (1873–1927). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Saint Lucia gains its independence from the United Kingdom in 1979 !
English: This photo is taken by Chensiyuan; it shows the town of Soufrière, St Lucia, as seen from the road approaching it from the north, and in the background the twin peaks of Petit Piton and Gros Piton. Español: Esta foto tomada por Chensiyuan muestra el pueblo de Soufrière, en Santa Lucía, visto desde la carretera que se aproxima a él desde el norte, y en el fondo están los dos picos Petit Piton y Gros Piton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The village of Soufriere lit up as night falls. the Pitons in the background are volcanic plugs rising straight out ogf the sea. St. Lucia W.I. the pitons are a world heritage site. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Pitons in St. Lucia with the fishing village of Soufriere in the foreground (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Petit Piton, St. Lucia. Gros Piton in the background. Deutsch: Petit Piton, St. Lucia. Im Hintergrund Gros Piton. Euskara: Petit Piton eta Gros Piton mendiak. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Julius “Dr J” Erving ! NBA player, Rajon Rondo ! NFL player, Khalil Mack !
Khalil Mack
By Jeffrey Beall
English: Julius Erving in 1981 performing a slam dunk against the Atlanta Hawks at Omni Coliseum. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Activist, Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City in 1965.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the only time the two men ever met; their meeting lasted only one minute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Malcolm X waiting for a press conference to begin on March 26, 1964 Deutsch: Malcolm X, aufgenommen am 26. März 1964, auf den Beginn einer Pressekonferenz wartend (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Politician, Barbara Jordan ! Singer/Activist, Nina Simone ! Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe ! Sprinter, Leroy Burrell !
English: Photograph of Barbara Jordan Memorial taken at nighttime on May 6, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Original caption: President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe listens as Prof. Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the Commission of the African Union, addresses attendees at the opening ceremony of the 10th Ordinary Session of the Assembly during the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Thomas J. O’Halloran, U.S. News & World Report MagazineToday in Afro History ! Abolitionist/Author, Frederick Douglas passes away in 1895.
Frederick Douglas Memorial Hall at Howard University in Washington, DC. This building, along with three others, was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By C.M. Battey
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Rihanna ! Actor, Sidney Poitier ! NBA player, Charles Barkley ! NBA player, Stephon Marbury ! Singer, Nancy Wilson !

Sidney Poitier’s image, cropped from Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 08/28/1963, an image in Public Domain (see credits below, of the original). The original is uploaded here at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Poitier_Belafonte_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Actor Sidney Poitier receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on August 12, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Charles Barkley, former NBA basketball player who played for Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers, currently works as a sports commentator for ESPN. עברית: צ’ארלס בארקלי, שחקן נ.ב.א. לשעבר ששיחק עבור פניקס סאנס, יוסטון רוקטס ופילדלפיה 76′, כיום עובד כפרשן עבור ערוץ הטלוויזיה ESPN. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Jørund F Pedersen
Today in Afro History ! Activist W.E.B. Du Bois organizes the first Pan-African Congress in 1919 ! John Singleton becomes the first Afro American Director, nominated for an Academy Award in 1992 !

English: Oscar-nominated film director John Singleton, taken during a USC Football rally (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Cornelius Marion
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer/Producer, Smokey Robinson ! Singer, Seal ! Actor, Leslie David Baker !
Smokey Robinson in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on August 17, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Miracles in the early 1960s. Clockwise from top left: Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Ronald White, Claudette Rogers, and Smokey Robinson. At the time of this photograph, Miracles member Pete Moore (not pictured) was serving in the US Army after being drafted. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)






