Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Rapper/Actor, Ice Cube ! Activist/ Escaped Slave, Josiah Henson ! MLB player/Manager Dusty Baker ! Jazz Pianist, Erroll Garner !

Ice Cube (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A picture of Dusty talking to Chris Welsh (off camera) before a game against the Phillies in Philadelphia, July 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

c. 1947 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Photo credit: Wikipedia)