English: Curtis Mayfield performing for Dutch televisie in 1972 Nederlands: Curtis Mayfield tijdens een televisieoptreden in Nederland in 1972 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Afro Birthdays
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)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Morgan Freeman ! Actor, Cleavon Little ! Actor Mark Curry ! NFL player, Santana Moss ! NBA player, Nick Young !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Nate Robinson ! Rapper, Darryl ” D.M.C.” McDaniels !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Gale Sayers ! Actor, Stepin Fetchit ! Actor, Ralph Carter ! NBA player, Jeremy Lamb ! Kenyan runner, Margaret Okayo ! Singer, Ceelo Green !
Photo of the Evans family from the television program Good Times. From left: Ralph Carter (Michael), Bernnadette Stanis (Thelma), Jimmie Walker (J.J.), Esther Rolle (Florida), John Amos (James). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: East quarterback Terrelle Pryor of Jeannette, Pa., was selected U.S Army high school football Player of the Year during an awards banquet in San Antonio, Texas. Pryor and 90 of the top football players in the nation meet at the Alamodome in an East vs. West confrontation. Gale Sayers, NFL Hall of Fame running back, was the keynote speaker. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Comedian Stepin Fetchit (far right) appears with the gang in A Tough Winter. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Carmelo Anthony ! Singer, Rebbie Jackson ! Singer, Latoya Jackson ! Comedian, Earthquake !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Gladys Knight ! Activist, Dr. Betty Shabazz, (wife of Malcolm X) ! Blues Guitarist, T-Bone Walker ! NFL player, Michael Oher ! NFL player, NaVorro Bowman ! NFL player, Percy Harvin !
Gladys Knight in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on October 12, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Gladys Knight and the Pips perform aboard the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61) during the special Suzanne Somers show. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Louis Gossett Jr ! Singer/ Rapper, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes ! Singer, Andre 3000 ! Pianist, Ramsey Lewis ! Actor, Todd Bridges !
Actor Louis Gossett, Jr. at the 16th Annual MovieGuide Faith and Values Awards Gala (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Ramsey Lewis following a live performance in the KPLU Seattle Studios on October 16, 2009. Photo by Justin Steyer / KPLU (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Actor Todd Bridges at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. Photographed by Luigi Novi. This photo may only be used if the photographer is properly credited. (See Licensing information below.) Category:2009 Big Apple Convention Category:Todd Bridges (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer/Actor, Lenny Kravitz ! Actress, Pam Grier ! Singer, Lauryn Hill ! Musician, Miles Davis ! Actor, Philip Michael Thomas !
American actress Pam Grier at L6, fan convention for The L Word television program, in Norbreck Castle Hotel, Blackpool, UK. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Lenny Kravitz greets Staff Sgt. Walter Talens at the 82nd Academy Awards. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Author: I found in an old box some of my past work of 20 years ago. I made a large serie of slides during the North Sea Jazz Festival of some well known artists. I will try to get a bit of the quality of the original Kodak EES 800/1600 5020 in the scans. The photo’s of Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) are made during his last concert in the Netherlands at the North Sea Jazz Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Dancer/Actor, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson ! Actress, Octavia Spencer ! NBA player, Kendall Gill ! NBA player, Derrick Williams ! Writer, Jamaica Kincaid ! Runner, Ezekiel Kemboi !
English: Ezekiel Kemboi at the World Championship Athletics 2009 in Berlin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Patti LaBelle ! Rapper, Heavy D ! NBA player, Tracy McGrady ! Actor, Carl Anthony Payne !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Boxer, Marvelous Marvin Hagler ! Singer/Actor, Scatman Crothers ! Singer, Maxwell !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Model, Naomi Campbell ! Actor, Paul Winfield ! Singer, Johnny Gill ! Singer, Donell Jones ! Singer, Vivian Green !
Naomi Campbell at FashionWeekLive in San Francisco, March 15, 2007. Photo by Jesse Gross. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Ricky Williams ! Rapper, Notorious B.I.G. ! Actor, Mr. T ! Singer, Ronald Isley ! Jazz Pianist, Thomas “Fats” Waller !
Fats Waller, three-quarter length portrait, seated at piano, facing front / World Telegram & Sun photo by Alan Fisher. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
























