Afro Birthdays
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)
By Eva Rinaldi
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 !
Khalil Mack
By Jeffrey Beall
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)
By Jørund F Pedersen
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)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Author, Toni Morrison ! Singer, Irma Thomas ! NFL player, Le’Veon Bell ! Producer/Rapper, Dr. Dre !
By derivative work: Entheta (talk)Toni_Morrison_2008.jpg: Angela Radulescu
Toni Morrison
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA Legend, Michael Jordan ! NFL Legend, Jim Brown ! Singer, Chante Moore ! Activist, Huey Newton !
English: Picture of Michael Jordan at a basketball game. Français : Photo de Michael Jordan lors d’un match de basket. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Michael Jordan at Boston Garden
By Steve Lipofsky at basketballphoto.com
Original six members of the Black Panther Party (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert “Big Man” Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Levar Burton! NFL player, Jerome Bettis ! Rapper, Ice-T ! Singer, James Ingram !
By Josh Hallett
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Model, Selita Ebanks ! Activist, Claudia Jones ! NFL player, Darrell Green ! Actress/Singer, Amber Riley !
By Porter Hovey
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Abolitionist/Author, Frederick Douglas ! Actor/Tap Dancer, Gregory Hines ! NFL player, Steve McNair ! NFL player, Jadeveon Clowney ! NFL player, Alshon Jeffery !
South Carolina Gamecocks signee Jadeveon Clowney attempts to sack Tennessee Volunteers signee Justin Worley in a high school football game in Rock Hill, South Carolina on August 28, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Ian McCormick, retired American football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens (at time of photo) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By not listed – Collection of the New-York Historical Society
By George Kendall Warren
Todays Afro Birthday’s ! NFL player, Randy Moss ! NFL player, Aqib Talib ! Rapper, Freedom Williams !
Randy Moss #81 of the New England Patriots before a preseason game against the Washington Redskins at FedExField on August 28, 2009 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Keith Allison
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Robert Griffin III ! NBA player, Bill Russell ! Talk Show Host/Actor, Arsenio Hall ! NFL player, DeMarco Murray ! Singer, Elle Varner !
English: Baylor quarterback, Robert Griffin III, signing autographs at the 2009 Meet the Bears scrimmage (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By [Samuel Barfield III








