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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor/Singer/Dancer, Ben Vereen ! Jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk ! MLB player, Andrew McCutchen ! NFL player, Geno Smith ! Singer, Mya !

English: Thelonious Monk, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, ca. September 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, and model Mya standing among fans and media before the start of the 2003 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, NY. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Uganda gains its independence from the United Kingdom in 1962 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Jazz Saxophonist, Kenny Garrett ! NFL player/coach, Mike Singletary ! Actor, Tyler James Williams ! Singer, Nona Hendryx ! MLB player, Starling Marte !

English: Nona Hendryx performing at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the Captain Beefheard tribute Best Batch Yet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary answers questions during the San Francisco 49ers Family Day 2009 at Candlestick Park. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Starling Marte By Sports Crazy on Flickr
Tyler James Williams By MingleMediaTVNetwork
Today in Afro History ! Derek Walcott is awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Activist, Rev. Jesse Jackson ! Gospel singer, Ce Ce Winans ! Actor, Nick Cannon ! Music Producer, Teddy Riley ! Actress, Karyn Parsons !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Toni Braxton ! Bishop, Desmond Tutu ! Nation Of Islam Leader, Elijah Muhammad ! Actress, Nicole Ari Parker ! NFL player, Charles Woodson ! Activist, Amiri Baraka !

English: Nicole Ari Parker at a performance of The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker in December 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Desmond Tutu 2007 at the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag in Cologne 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Elijah Muhammad standing behind microphones at podium / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Amiri Baraka addressing the Malcom X Festival in San Antonio Park, Oakland, California (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today in Afro History ! Iowa State University’s first Afro American football player, Jack Trice suffered fatal injuries during a game in 1923. He died two days later.
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player/coach, Tony Dungy ! MLB player, Darren Oliver ! NFL player, Richard Seymour ! Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer ! Singer, Millie Small ! NFL player, Chris Mathews !

Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights leader, at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts football team, arrives onboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) via helicopter. (Cropped from a U.S. Navy photograph) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tony Dungy
Today in Afro History ! Barry Bonds breaks single season home run record by hitting his 71 and 72 home run in 2001 !

Barry Bonds at the plate against the Cubs. According to Yahoo sports and the image’s Flickr Page, Michael Barrett is behind Bonds (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player. Grant Hill ! Comedian, Bernie Mac ! Singer, Heather Headley ! Singer, Brooke Valentine !
Today in Afro History ! Basutoland, which was renamed” The Kingdom of Lesotho”, gains independence from The United Kingdom in 1966 !

File showing the locations of the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Republic of South Africa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)