Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Gladys Knight ! Activist, Dr. Betty Shabazz, (wife of Malcolm X) ! Blues Guitarist, T-Bone Walker ! NFL player, Michael Oher ! NFL player, NaVorro Bowman ! NFL player, Percy Harvin ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
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’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Louis Gossett Jr ! Singer/ Rapper, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes ! Singer, Andre 3000 ! Pianist, Ramsey Lewis ! Actor, Todd Bridges ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
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 in Afro History ! Althea Gibson becomes the first Afro American woman to win a major tennis title by winning the French Open in 1956 ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
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)
Lauryn Hill at Central Park (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer/Actor, Lenny Kravitz ! Actress, Pam Grier ! Singer, Lauryn Hill ! Musician, Miles Davis ! Actor, Philip Michael Thomas ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
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)
Owens performing the long jump at the Olympics. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
African-American Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Jesse Owens of Ohio State University, breaks three world records and ties a fourth in 1935 ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
English: Ezekiel Kemboi at the World Championship Athletics 2009 in Berlin (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 ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
English: ‘The Last Moments of John Brown’, oil on canvas painting by Thomas Hovenden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Daguerreotype of John Brown (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Abolitionist, John Brown led a revolt in 1856, which is now known as The Pottawatomie Massacre ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Patti LaBelle ! Rapper, Heavy D ! NBA player, Tracy McGrady ! Actor, Carl Anthony Payne ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
English: William Harvey Carney (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By James E Reed – Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
Today in Afro History ! Sgt. William H. Carney becomes first Afro American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1900 ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Boxer, Marvelous Marvin Hagler ! Singer/Actor, Scatman Crothers ! Singer, Maxwell ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
Langston Hughes Lincoln University 1928 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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)
LIEUT. COL. BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR. – AIR FIGHTER – NARA – 535698 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Langston Hughes, 29 February 1936 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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. was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Model, Naomi Campbell ! Actor, Paul Winfield ! Singer, Johnny Gill ! Singer, Donell Jones ! Singer, Vivian Green ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
Today in Afro History ! Mary Jane Patterson becomes the first Afro American woman to earn a B. A. Degree when she receives her Degree from Oberlin College in 1862 ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Ricky Williams ! Rapper, Notorious B.I.G. ! Actor, Mr. T ! Singer, Ronald Isley ! Jazz Pianist, Thomas “Fats” Waller ! was last modified: May 1st, 2023 by Marc Alexander