Today in Afro History ! Jomo Kenyatta is elected as the first Prime Minister of Kenya in 1963 !
English: Aerial photograph of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO/HKJK) in Nairobi, Kenya (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Jomo Kenyatta Statue in front of Kenya High Court, Nairobi, Kenya Русский: Памятник Джомо Кениате, Найроби, Кения (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 in Afro History ! Althea Gibson becomes the first Afro American woman to win a major tennis title by winning the French Open in 1956 !
Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In 1950 tennis star Althea Gibson (1927-2003) became the first African American to compete in the U.S. Nationals. The next year she became the first African American to play at Wimbledon, England. (Museum of American History – Behring Center) (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 in Afro History ! Jesse Owens of Ohio State University, breaks three world records and ties a fourth in 1935 !
Jesse Owens shook racial stereotypes both with Nazis and segregationists in the USA at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Jesse Owens with Ralph Metcalfe at track and field tryouts at Randall’s Island Stadium in New York (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 in Afro History ! Abolitionist, John Brown led a revolt in 1856, which is now known as The Pottawatomie Massacre !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Patti LaBelle ! Rapper, Heavy D ! NBA player, Tracy McGrady ! Actor, Carl Anthony Payne !
Today in Afro History ! Sgt. William H. Carney becomes first Afro American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1900 !
By James E Reed – Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Boxer, Marvelous Marvin Hagler ! Singer/Actor, Scatman Crothers ! Singer, Maxwell !
Today in Afro History ! Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first Afro American U.S. Air Force General in 1959 ! Langston Hughes passes away in 1967.

Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group, in front of his P-47 Thunderbolt in Sicily. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
from http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070207-F-9999W-001.jpg. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., an aviation pioneer, is one of the most famous Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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)
















