Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Sprinter, Usain Bolt ! NBA player, Wilt Chamberlain ! Musician, Count Basie ! Actor/Director, Melvin Van Peebles ! Actress, Loretta Devine ! MLB player, Melvin “B. J.” Upton Jr. !

Melvin Van Peebles at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Usain Bolt at the World Championship Athletics 2009 in Berlin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

edited (colour) picture Image:Wilt Chamberlain.jpg Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player wearing uniform of Harlem Globetrotters. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a screen capture of Count Basie at the piano from the movie “Rhythm and Blues Revue”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Loretta Devine at a performance of The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker in December 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)