What happened to the African American catcher?| The Undefeated
Examining the lack of black catchers in MLB and the prospects with a shot On March 12, A.J. Lewis’ collegiate baseball career abruptly ended, like a candle snuffed out by…
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Examining the lack of black catchers in MLB and the prospects with a shot On March 12, A.J. Lewis’ collegiate baseball career abruptly ended, like a candle snuffed out by…
In a long and distinguished career covering six decades she was hailed as a formidable campaigner, patron of the Black Cultural Archives and the first black Governor of the BBC…
Recently, The United Negro College Fund worked in concert with several organizations, institutions, and elected representatives to secure $1 Billion in funds for Historically Black Colleges and Universities from the…
Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1906, two innocent black men named Horace Duncan and Fred Coker (aka Jim Copeland) were abducted from the county jail by a white mob…
Before you criticize Trump’s new press secretary for rooting against everything black, you must acknowledge that everyone hates something. For me, it’s balled up tissue. After every church service, when…
ST. LOUIS — Officials said Wednesday that all of the people in the city who’ve died from complications related to COVID-19 were African American. There have been 12 people in…
Since my TED talk entitled “How Whistle-blowers Shape History” in October 2018, I’ve had the honor to meet courageous whistleblowers all over the world. This monthly series will highlight whistle-blowers…
In the first cartoon Elizabeth Montague published in the New Yorker, two black women stand on a rooftop that overlooks a darkened cityscape. Above them, a Batman-inspired spotlight beams a…
On April 13, 1896, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging racial segregation laws in Louisiana. Homer Plessy, a black man who had been arrested for…
On April 11, 1913, recently inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson received Postmaster General Albert Burleson’s plan to segregate the Railway Mail Service. Burleson reported that he found it “intolerable” that white…