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Baseball’s Larry Doby: #2 but first-class all the way home
April 17, 2018Ask even the most casual baseball fan who the first African American to play in the major leagues was and they'll say "Jackie Robinson." Ask them who the second was and you'll probably get a blank...
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Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947
April 16, 2018"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...
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‘Considering Matthew Shepard’: Remembrance, honor, and gratitude in a new choral masterpiece
April 16, 2018One of the most shocking acts of anti-gay violence ever recorded in American history moved the nation to action.
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Nashville Indigenous community commemorates Dragging Canoe Day; honors Cherokee leader
April 11, 2018“To see the future, one needs only to look at the past.”
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Taking a long look backward to explain a police killing in Sacramento
April 9, 2018A system of racial oppression and race hatred has prevailed throughout U.S. history. Its staying power calls for explanation. Historian Gerald Horne offers insights.
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