Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Eddie George ! NFL player, “Mean” Joe Greene ! Actress, Malinda Williams ! Singer, Sonny Turner ! NFL player, John Mackey !
Mean Joe Greene
Today in Afro History ! Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations in 1983 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Saxophonist, John Coltrane ! Singer, Ray Charles ! NFL player, Chris Johnson ! Actress, LisaRaye McCoy ! Actor, Anthony Mackie ! NBA player, Brandon Jennings ! Actor, Chi McBride !

English: Actor Chi McBride. Modificated from original photo. Italiano: L’attore Chi McBride. Ritagliato dalla foto originale. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Actress/Designer LisaRaye McCoy Shares Panel for Dark and Lovely and Essense Magazine, The “Ultimate Fashionista” Event in Chicago, IL, USA on June 12, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Brandon Jennings of the Milwaukee Bucks during a game against the Detroit Pistons (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Shaka, The Zulu King is killed in 1828. The Sudanese Republic becomes the Independent Republic of Mali in 1960 !

English: Mali (orthographic projection) Português: Mali (projeção ortográfica) Español: Mali (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Denard Robinson ! Actress, Shari Belafonte ! Activist, James Lawson ! Actor, Carlos Knight !

Beachside with a donkey cart in Gambia. Français : Le bord de mer et une charrette tirée par un âne. Gambie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Gambia River in its lower reaches flowing through the entire length of The Gambia up to its joining the North Atlantic Ocean (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Alfonso Ribeiro ! NBA player, Artis Gilmore ! NFL player, Greg Jennings ! NFL player, Doug Baldwin !
Today in Afro History ! James Meredith was refused admission to the University of Mississippi, but later admitted under pressure of protestors and President John F. Kennedy in 1962 !

walking to class at University of Mississippi, accompanied by U.S. marshals. According to http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c35515, the men flanking Meredith are U.S. Marshal James McShane (left) and of the Justice Department (right) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

walking to class at University of Mississippi, accompanied by U.S. marshals. Cropped image from this file. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actress, Debbi Morgan ! Musician, Jelly Roll Morton ! Actor, Aldis Hodge ! NFL player, Carlos Hyde ! Miss USA, Crystle Stewart ! Singer, The Dream !

English: Crystle Stewart outside the Vivenne Tam show at the Spring 2009 collection Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (aka New York Fashion Week The photographer dedicates this portrait to Wikipedia editor PageantUpdater, who has tirelessly improved beauty pageant articles, including Crystle Stewart’s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Photograph of Jelly Roll Morton, cropped from group photo of musicians and entertainers in Los Angeles, California, at the Cadillac Club, c. 1917 or 1918. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! St. Kitts and Nevis gain independence from the United Kingdom in 1983 !
English: For use in St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla, based off of Image:LocationAnguilla.png, a wikipedia map, seen below. Image:LocationAnguilla.png (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The Grey Area Around the Red Star Indicates the Location and City Limits of the City of Basseterre on the Island of St. Kitts. Suomi: Basseterren kaupungin sijainti on merkitty karttaan punaisella tähdellä. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actress, Sanaa Lathan ! NBA player, Tyreke Evans ! Actor, Victor Williams ! Actor, Columbus Short ! Singer, Brook Benton !

English: Jimi Hendrix performs for Dutch television show Hoepla in 1967. Nederlands: Jimi Hendrix treedt op in het Nederlandse televisieprogramma Hoepla in 1967. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell during a Jimi Hendrix Experience’s performance for Dutch television show Hoepla in 1967. Nederlands: Jimi Hendrix en Mitch Mitchell tijdens een optreden van The Jimi Hendrix Experience in het Nederlandse televisieprogramma Hoepla in 1967. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actress, Jada Pinkett Smith ! Actress, Holly Robinson Peete ! NBA player, Serge Ibaka ! Comedian/Actress, Aisha Tyler ! Singer, Ricky Bell !