segregation
Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book
December 18, 2020This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.
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1619 anniversary: Black freedom struggle made U.S. more democratic for all
August 21, 2019Blacks suffered under slavery for 250 years, and brutal racial apartheid for a century more. We have been legally free for just 50.
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65 years after Brown vs. Board: What happened to multicultural education?
May 17, 2019How much progress have we made in getting racism out of our schools since Brown vs. Board?
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The First Lady of baseball
May 8, 2018There is only one tombstone engraved: "She Loved Baseball." A fitting tribute to the memory of Effa Manley, the only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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The real Bosox curse was racism, not the Bambino
May 7, 2018The Boston Red Sox have finally decided to atone for two of the most racist, self-destructive snubs in sports history.
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