Today In History

• In 1989- David Dinkins elected 1st Black mayor of New York City
• In 1989- L. Douglas Wilder elected Governor of Virginia
• In 2017- Justin Fairfax elected VA Lieut. Governor, becoming 2nd African American to win statewide seat
• In 2017- New Jersey elected Sheila Oliver as its first female African-American lieutenant governor
• In 2017- Vi Lyles was elected as Charlotte, North Carolina’s first female African-American mayor
• In 2017- Yvonne Spicer was elected the first mayor of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts
• In 2017- Wilmot Collins elected mayor in Helena, Montana, becoming the first Black mayor in Montana history
• In 2017- Voters in St. Paul, Minn., made history by electing Melvin Carter as the city’s first African-American mayor.
• In 2017- Jonathan McCollar elected as the first African-American mayor of Statesboro, Ga,
• In 2017- Brendon Barber, a Georgetown, S.C. city councilman since 1998, will become the city’s first ever African-American mayor.

To Inspire You

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses

George Washington Carver