Today in Afro History ! Tony Dungy becomes the first Afro American head coach to win the Super Bowl in 2007 !
Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts football team, arrives onboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) via helicopter. (Cropped from a U.S. Navy photograph) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Activist, Rosa Parks ! NFL player, Lawrence Taylor ! NFL player, Jerome Brown !
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Today in Afro History ! The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified in 1870, which granted voting rights regardless of race.
1870 celebration of the Fifteenth Amendment as a guarantee of African American voting rights (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Julio Jones ! Singer, Dennis Edwards ! NFL player, Andre Ellington ! NFL player, Dwayne Rudd !
By Bernie Ilson, Inc. – Cropped from file:The Temptations on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1968.
By Georgia National Guard – Flickr: Playoff Pass,Today in Afro History ! South African President, F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban against anti-apartheid groups such as the African National Congress and committed to releasing Nelson Mandela in 1990 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! NFL player, Donald Driver ! NBA player, Sean Elliot ! Singer/Musician, Al McKay ! Opera Singer, Simon Estes ! NFL player, C. J. Anderson !
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By Mike Morbeck – Flickr: Donald Driver,Today in Afro History ! Four Afro American students “The Greensboro Four” , stage the first sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro N.C. in 1960 !
A section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s where the Greensboro sit-ins began is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. A section of lunch counter now appears in the display of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. Counter from the Greensboro sit-ins. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By dbking from Washington, DC – Greensboro, NC “Sit In” 1960,
By https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/index.php/Reform/TheCivilRightsMovement,
The Greensboro Four
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Rick James ! Poet, Langston Hughes ! Actor, Sherman Hemsley ! MLB player, Austin Jackson ! Actor, Garrett Morris ! Actor, Lee Thompson Young !
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)
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Austin Jackson
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Rick James
Today in Afro History ! Doug Williams becomes the first Afro American quarterback to play in the Superbowl, leading Washington to victory over Denver in 1988 !
“Doug Williams (cropped)” by Doug_Williams.jpg: Original uploader was ChrisdbrowndotnetTodays Afro Birthdays ! Actress, Kerry Washington ! MLB player, Jackie Robinson ! MLB player, Ernie Banks ! Actor, Glynn Turmann ! NFL player, Vernon Davis ! NFL player, Mario Williams !
“Mario Williams” by Lance Cpl. Brandon Love. Cropped by User:Blueag9.
“Vernon davis broncos” by original: Capt. Darin Overstreet of the U.S. Air Colorado National Guardderivative: Diddykong1130
“Glynn Turman headshot” by Lisa Fulton
“Kerry Washington 2 by David Shankbone” by David Shankbone
“Kerry Washington Met Opera 2010 Shankbone” by David Shankbone
Today in Afro History ! MLB player, Leroy “Satchel” Paige is named “All Time Outstanding Player” by The National Baseball Congress in 1965 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Jody Watley ! NBA player, Jalen Rose ! NFL player, Cameron Wake ! Sprinter, Angela Williams !
“Jalen Rose Detroit BME Leadership Awards” by Knight Foundation
“Cameron Wake 2014” by Jeffrey Beall
“Jwaffairs93 mini” by AvidMusicInc – Jody Watley.




