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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player/Mayor, Kevin Johnson ! Inventor, Garrett A. Morgan ! Singer, Bobby Womack ! Singer/Activist, Miriam Makeba ! Singer, K Michelle !
English: Bobby Womack performing on Orange Stage with Gorillaz on Roskilde Festival 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Dianna MillerToday’s Afro Birthday’s ! NFL player, Herschel Walker ! Olympian, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ! NFL player, Santonio Holmes ! Rapper, Tone-Loc !

English: Jackie Joyner Kersee on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 16, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today’s Afro Birthday’s ! NFL player, Reggie Bush ! NFL player, Shane Vereen ! Rapper, Method Man ! NFL player, Malcolm Butler !
Cal running back Shane Vereen at the 2009 Cal Fan Appreciation Day at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today’s Afro Birthday’s ! Actor/Activist Harry Belafonte ! Actress, Lupita Nyong’o ! Author, Ralph Ellison ! NBA player, Chris Webber !
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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Tayshaun Prince ! NFL player, Charles Aaron “Bubba” Smith ! Actress, Rae Dawn Chong ! MLB player, Aroldis Chapman ! Actress, Tasha Smith !
By Keith Allison from Baltimore, USAToday’s Afro Birthdays ! Opera singer, Marian Anderson ! NBA player, James Worthy ! Saxophonist, Dexter Gordon ! Singer, Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas ! NFL player, Chandler Jones ! NBA player, Devin Harris !
Michael Jordan, Dean Smith, and James Worthy at UNC Basketball game. Feb. 10, 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Dexter Gordon in Amsterdam (2). 1980. Picture taken by Albert Kok (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Erykah Badu ! NFL player, Marshall Faulk ! Actor/Director, Bill Duke ! Singer, Antoine ” Fats” Domino !
A screenshot of Fats Domino singing “Blueberry Hill” on the “Alan Freed Show” 1956. The picture quality is bad, taken from a video-tape source. I feel this may be useful as the image is public, as it’s a screenshot from a TV series not under copyright. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Photo of Marshall Faulk when he was interviewed at KUSI-TV In San Diego (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthday ! Model/Actress, Veronica Webb ! Olympic Gold Medalist (sprinter) Donald Quarrie ! NFL player, James Starks ! Actress, Rashida Jones !
English: Green Bay Packer running back James Starks riding a fan’s bicycle at pre-season training camp, Green Bay Wisconsin, August 1, 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By David ShankboneToday’s Afro Birthdays ! Boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr. ! MLB player, Eddie Murray ! Actor, O’Shea Jackson Jr. !
English: Floyd Mayweather during a press conference for the fight against Victor Ortiz at the Hudson Theatre on June 28, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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By DEWALT POWER TOOLS FIGHT NIGHT CLUB 2010Today’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’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Julius “Dr J” Erving ! NBA player, Rajon Rondo ! NFL player, Khalil Mack !
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English: Julius Erving in 1981 performing a slam dunk against the Atlanta Hawks at Omni Coliseum. (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’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)
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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)








