Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoring” the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. “Baseball was not just a pastime for Black people,” said Myers. “It was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came together” during American apartheid.
Rupert Murdoch’s paper helped elect Adams and hasn’t quite given up on him yet.
Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost.
Dr. Jemima Pierre delivered these remarks during her keynote address at the Launch of the Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series on June 9th, Trinidad and Tobago, sponsored by the Emancipation Support…
This week, we learn about deadly abortion restrictions in the state of Georgia, where the lack of reproductive rights cost two Black women their lives. But first, we have an analysis of the 2024…
Dr. Anthony Monteiro joins us from Philadelphia to discuss the 2024 presidential election. We ask, what type of election is this, as the Teamsters Union declines to endorse the democratic candidate,…
