Marc Alexander
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Author, Alice Walker ! NBA player, Jameer Nelson ! MLB player, Mookie Wilson ! Singer, Barbara Lewis ! Actor, Michael B. Jordan ! Actress, Camille Winbush !
Today in Afro History ! “Good Times” debuts on TV in 1974 ! The Supremes release “Stop! In the Name of Love” in 1965 !
English: Publicity photo from Good Times. Pictured are John Amos (James) and Esther Rolle (Florida). This was for the premiere of the show. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The Supremes’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 7060 Hollywood Blvd. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By CBS Television
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Gary Coleman ! NBA player, Alonzo Mourning !
Today in Afro History ! Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti’s first democratically elected President in 1991 !

English: Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, October 14, 1994. Français : Jean-Bertrand Aristide rencontre Bill Clinton dans le bureau ovale, 14 octobre 1994. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Comedian/Actor, Chris Rock ! Actress, Essence Atkins ! NBA player, Juwan Howard !


Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Singer, Natalie Cole ! Singer, Bob Marley ! Actor, Robert Townsend ! Poet, Melvin B. Tolson ! NFL player, Jermaine Kearse !

English: Bob Marley live in concert, just a couple of years before his death (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today in Afro History ! The murderer of civil rights activist Medgar Evers is finally convicted over thirty years later in 1994. Bob Douglas becomes the first Afro American inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1972 !
Today’s Afro Birthdays ! MLB player, Hank Aaron ! NFL player, Kelvin Benjamin ! Actor, Tim Meadows ! NBA player, Terrence Ross ! Singer, Bobby Brown !

English: Milwaukee Braves outfielder and Hall of Famer Hank Aaron in a 1960 issue of Baseball Digest. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Terrence Ross
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)
By USAF
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 !

