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 !

Gladys Knight in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on October 12, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Gladys Knight and the Pips perform aboard the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61) during the special Suzanne Somers show. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: T-Bone Walker, American Folk Blues Festival, Hamburg, march 1972 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Michael Oher at Baltimore Ravens Training Camp August 5, 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)