Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Malcom Floyd ! NFL player, L. C. Greenwood ! NBA player, Maurice Cheeks ! Actor, Larenz Tate ! South African Runner, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi ! NFL player, Travis Daniels !
English: Travis Daniels, a player on the Kansas City Chiefs American football team. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka – South African 800 metres runner Mbulaeni Mulaudzi after the semifinal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Desmond Tutu becomes the first Afro South African to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa in 1986 !
English: South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivered a speech at the first International Ethics Conference at the University of Botswana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Jazz saxophonist, Sonny Rollins ! NBA player, Antonio McDyess ! Singer, Gloria Gaynor ! Rapper, Eazy E !
English: Sonny Rollins on the main stage at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Antonio McDyess of The San Antonio Spurs, against The Boston Celtics, March 31, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The Kingdom of Swaziland gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1968 !
Swazis dancing in a cultural village show. Author: Christoph Riedl SWAZILAND (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Traditional homes in Swaziland and still widely used outside of the towns. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Idris Elba ! Singer, Macy Gray ! NBA player, John Wall ! Actor, Michael Winslow ! Actress, Anika Noni Rose !
English: Macy Gray performs live on Bloor Street in Downtown Toronto, Canada, to mark the start of the 2008 Christmas holiday season. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Leopold Sedar Senghor becomes the first elected president of Senegal in 1960 !
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Touching the supernatural Photo taken in Kaolak, Senegal (West Africa) in November, 1967 (Best viewed large). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The National Guard is called out to prevent Afro American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 !
Operation Arkansas: A Different Kind of Deployment Photo by Courtesy of the National Archives September 20, 2007 Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Beyonce Knowles ! Comedian/Actor ,Damon Wayans ! Inventor, Lewis Latimer ! Author, Richard Wright !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Jevon Kearse ! NBA player, Damon Stoudamire ! Civil rights lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston !
Today in Afro History ! Rev. Al Sharpton leads a protest march in Bensonhurst Brooklyn over the death of Yusef Hawkins in 1989. Oberlin College founded in 1833.
The Reverend Al Sharpton leading the first protest march over the death of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, 1989. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)













