Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Prince ! NBA player, Allen Iverson ! Poet, Gwendolyn Brooks ! Actress, Kim Whitley ! Music Producer, L.A. Reid !
English: Allen Iverson, of the National Basketball Association’s Detroit Pistons, during a 2008 basketball game against the Washington Wizards. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today in Afro History ! Phylicia Rashad wins a tony for leading role in ” A Raisin in the Sun ” in 2004 ! Civil Rights Activist James Meredith is shot while marching across Mississippi in 1966.
walking to class at University of Mississippi, accompanied by U.S. marshals. According to http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c35515, the men flanking Meredith are U.S. Marshal James McShane (left) and of the Justice Department (right) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Olympic Gold Medalist, Tommie Smith ! Producer, “Jimmy Jam” Harris !
Today in Afro History ! Dr. Mae Jemison becomes a NASA astronaut in 1987 ! She would eventually be the first Afro American woman in space.
Dr. Mae C. Jemison, First African-American Woman in Space – GPN-2004-00020 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Astronauts Dr. N. Jan Davis (left) and Dr. Mae C. Jemison (right) are mission specialists on board the STS-47 mission. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays, ! Singer, Brian McKnight ! Olympic Medalist, John Carlos ! NFL player, Marques Colston ! NBA player, Marcus Thornton !
Brian McKnight appears to be singing the national anthem at the start of a Cleveland Cavaliers home game at the Quicken Loans Arena as they host the Washington Wizards. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Athlete speaking at the Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in 1979 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Keith David ! Navy Admiral, Samuel L. Gravely Jr. ! NBA player, Xavier McDaniel ! Singer, El DeBarge !
Today in Afro History ! Barack Obama is nominated by the Democratic Party to run for President of the United States in 2008 !
Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With his family by his side, Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States by Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr. in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington’s 1789 inauguration. VIRIN: 090120-F-3961R-919 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer/Actress, Josephine Baker ! Singer, Curtis Mayfield ! Singer, Denise Williams ! NBA player, Al Horford ! NBA player, Otto Porter ! Dr, Charles R. Drew !
English: Curtis Mayfield performing for Dutch televisie in 1972 Nederlands: Curtis Mayfield tijdens een televisieoptreden in Nederland in 1972 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston at the Folies Bergère, Paris — Revue Nègre Dance (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Harriet Tubman leads over 100 Union Solders in the Combahee River Raid, which freed over 700 slaves in 1863 !
Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Notice published in the Cambridge Democrat (1849), offering a reward for the return of Harriet Tubman and her two brothers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Educator/Activist, Cornel West ! Actor, Dennis Haysbert ! Soccer player, Freddy Adu ! Comedian, Wayne Brady ! Singer, Leela James !
English: Cornel West, keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Week. University of Utah. Contrast enhanced, sensor noise filtered, saturation adjusted (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Freddy Adu representing the US soccer team at the 2011 Gold Cup semi-final match in Houston Texas on June 22, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Wayne Brady at World of Color Premiere at Disney California Adventure Park in June 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)



















