Afro History
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 in Afro History ! Doug Williams becomes the first Afro American quarterback to play in the Superbowl, leading Washington to victory over Denver in 1988 !

Today in Afro History ! MLB player, Leroy “Satchel” Paige is named “All Time Outstanding Player” by The National Baseball Congress in 1965 !

Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige in the uniform of the Kansas City Monarchs (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! U.S. peacekeeping troops were deployed to Port-au-Prince Haiti to maintain order in 1914 !

The Haitian National Palace (Presidential Palace), located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, heavily damaged after the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Note: this was originally a two-story structure; the second story completely collapsed. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

View of Port-au Prince from Hotel Montana, which was destroyed by the 2010 Haiti earthquake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Port-au-Prince
By Ketounette

Debris in the streets of the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Bel-Air, in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! NASA Astronaut/Physicist, Ronald McNair dies in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.

English: Crew members of mission STS-51L stand in the White Room at Pad 39B following the end of the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT). From left to right they are: Teacher in Space Participant, Sharon “Christa” McAuliffe, Payload Specialist, Gregory Jarvis, Mission Specialist, Judy Resnik, Commander Dick Scobee Mission Specialist, Ronald McNair, Pilot, Michael Smith and Mission Specialist, Ellison Onizuka (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: NASA NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION FOR RELEASE: May 16, 1978 PHOTO NO. 78-HC-172 ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT RONALD E. MCNAIR GUION S. BLUFORD FREDERICK D. GREGORY (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-51-L pose for their official portrait on November 15, 1985. In the back row from left to right: Ellison S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judy Resnik. In the front row from left to right: Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ron McNair. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Gospel Singer, Mahalia Jackson passes away in 1972. Leontyne Price makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1961 !
Mahalia Jackson
By Carl Van Vechten – Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress,
“Apollo Theater Nelson Mandela” by The All-Nite Images from NY, NY, USA – Harlem: 125 St.