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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Alicia Keys ! NFL player, Patrick Willis ! Actress, Jenifer Lewis ! Singer, Etta James ! NBA player, Josh Powell !
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis at training camp in Santa Clara, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Alicia Keys live Walmart 3” by Walmart from Bentonville, USA
Today in Afro History ! Jackie Robinson is inducted into The Baseball Hall Of Fame in 1962 ! Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall passes away in 1993.

English: Jackie Robinson and his son David Being Interviewed at the “March on Washington” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Publicity photo of Jackie Robinson as an ABC broadcaster for “Major League Championship Baseball”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Aaron Neville ! Model/Actress Kenya Moore ! Actress, Tatyana Ali !
Today in Afro History ! Singer/Actor/Athlete/Activist, Paul Robeson passes away in 1976.

“Paul Robeson, world famous Negro baritone, leading Moore Shipyard (Oakland, CA) workers in singing the Star Spangled Ba – NARA – 535874 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Scene in O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun’ Got Wings in which Paul Robeson kissed Mary Blair’s hand and created a national uproar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Unknown – College Football Hall of Fame, PD-US,
Paul Robeson
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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Editor/Journalist, Susan L. Taylor ! Author, Derek Walcott ! NBA player, Larry Hughes ! Singer, Anita Pointer !

English: WASHINGTON (Sept. 24, 2009) Susan L. Taylor, editor of Essence Magazine at the Congressional Black Caucus meeting. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Karen E. Eifert/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize in Literature 1992; picture taken at his honorary dinner, Amsterdam, May 20th 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Joe Frazier was awarded the Order of the Palmetto in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“George Foreman 1973” by Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief:
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Sam Cooke ! NFL player, Ray Rice ! NBA player, Greg Oden ! DJ Jazzy Jeff !
“Sam Cooke billboard” by RCA Victor Records

Cropped screenshot of Count Basie and his band with featured vocalist Ethel Waters from the film Stage Door Canteen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a screen capture of Count Basie at the piano from the movie “Rhythm and Blues Revue”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“CountBasieStageDoorCanteen1” by Film screenshot – Stage Door Canteen film.
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! DJ Jam Master Jay ! NBA player, Hakeem Olajuwon ! Singer, Billy Ocean !
Today in Afro History ! Barack Obama is Inaugurated as the 44 President of The United States in 2009 !

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (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 ! Musician, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter ! NBA player, Jason Richardson ! Actor, Reno Wilson ! Actress, Stacey Dash !
Today in Afro History ! Jesse Owens is named Secretary of The Illinois Athletic Commission in 1953 !

English: Jesse Owens with Ralph Metcalfe at track and field tryouts at Randall’s Island Stadium in New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

African-American Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Publisher, John H. Johnson ! NFL player, Ottis Anderson ! Singer, Caron Wheeler ! NBA player, JaVale McGee ! Actress, Denise Boutte ! Singer, Trey Lorenz ! Actor, Shawn Wayans !
“J McGee – Wizards vs Heat 2009-04-04” by Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA

Today in Afro History ! “The Jeffersons” premieres on TV in 1975 ! Willie O’Ree makes NHL debut in 1958 ! MLK holiday observed in all 50 states in 1993 !

Gracie Mansion, Rev. Martin Luther King press conference / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
