Afro Birthdays
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Josh Howard ! Actress, Madge Sinclair ! Musician, Robert Greenidge ! Actress, Aleisha Allen !
By Mwinog2777Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Activist, Coretta Scott King ! Playwright, August Wilson ! Singer, Cuba Gooding Sr. !
English: Photo of Cuba Gooding, Sr. taken at a performance in San Diego, California. He was singing “Everybody Plays The Fool.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Giancarlo Esposito ! Singer, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins ! Singer, Avant ! Jamaican Sprinter, Novlene Williams-Mills !
By FrantogianToday’s Afro Birthdays ! Jazz Singer, Ella Fitzgerald ! NBA player, Tim Duncan ! Harlem Globetrotter, Meadowlark Lemon ! NFL player, DeAngelo Williams !
DeAngelo Williams at the Sorcerer Hat Stage during ESPN The Weekend, February 26, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By William P. Gottlieb
Ella Fitzgerald
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Comedian/Actor, Cedric The Entertainer ! Actress, Reagan Gomez-Preston ! Actor, Derek Luke ! Actor, Djimon Hounsou !
Cedric the Entertainer at the Johnson Family Vacation film premiere at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Beninese actor Djimon Hounsou arrive at the premiere of Push, Mann Theater, Westwood. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Inventor, Granville T. Woods ! Middle Distance Runner, Alysia Montano !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Marshawn Lynch ! Jazz performer Charles Mingus ! MLB player, Dee Gordon ! Actress, Sherri Shepherd ! NBA player, DeJuan Blair !
Cal running back Marshawn Lynch at the 2005 Las Vegas Bowl. The Golden Bears defeated the BYU Cougars 35-28. Lynch was the game MVP. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: NEW YORK (May 27, 2010) Sherri Shephard, host of the ABC talk show, The View. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ash Severe/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: DeJuan Blair of the San Antonio Spurs in pose, during the Spurs-Nuggets match on 12-22-2010 in San Antonio, TX. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Kelly Bailey
Marshawn Lynch
Today’s Afro Birthday ! NBA player, Rodney Stuckey ! NFL player, Tarvaris Jackson ! Actor, Brian J. White ! Gospel singer, Clara Ward ! NFL player, Carnell “Cadillac” Williams !
Auburn running back Carnell Williams was one of the stars of the Auburn offense during the 2004 season. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Rodney Stuckey, of the National Basketball Association’s Detroit Pistons, during a 2008 basketball game against the Washington Wizards. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Grammy Award winning singer, Luther Vandross ! Jazz musician/Bandleader, Lionel Hampton ! NBA player, Danny Granger ! Actor, Shemar Moore !
By ImageProsToday’s Afro Birthday ! WNBA player, Candace Parker ! Poet, Etheridge Knight ! Nigerian Actress, Ini Edo !
Tournament Most Outstanding Player Tennessee forward Candace Parker shoots over Louisiana State center Sylvia Fowles in the national semifinals. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Sergeev PavelToday’s Afro Birthdays ! James McCune Smith, first Afro American to earn medical degree ! Singer/Composer, Lord Kitchener ! Addie Mae Collins, 14 yr old Birmingham Church Bombing Victim.

The four girls killed in the bombing (Clockwise from top left, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthday ! NBA player, C. J. Watson ! Actress, Lela Rochon ! Rapper Redman ! Actress, Kimberly Elise !
By Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USAToday’s Afro Birthdays ! NBA player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ! Actor, Martin Lawrence ! NFL player, Dick “Night Train” Lane ! Singer, Akon ! Singer, Roy Hamilton ! NBA player, Luol Deng !

English: Los Angeles Lakers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Boston Celtics Robert Parish and Kevin McHale late 1980s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Steve Jenner – The Sporting News Archives,Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Blues singer, Bessie Smith ! Civil Rights Activist, A. Philip Randolph ! Chicago Mayor, Harold Washington ! Sprinter, Evelyn Ashford ! Actor, Flex Alexander !
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