Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Rick James ! Poet, Langston Hughes ! Actor, Sherman Hemsley ! MLB player, Austin Jackson ! Actor, Garrett Morris ! Actor, Lee Thompson Young !

Langston Hughes, 29 February 1936 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Sherman Helmsley, taken at the Hustler Hollywood store on December 3, 1999 Photo courtesy of www.lukeisback.com, used with permission (see here). Image taken from the Wayback Machine’s archive of lukeford.com, viewable here (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Austin Jackson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)