Via SI.com, an article on the seventieth anniversary of two Black baseball icons meeting in a history-altering mixed race game in one of the most segregated cities in America:
The small room will have to do. The most [...]
Via Vox, a report on public pools, important not just for recreation but also social integration and justice:
My summer Sunday afternoon ritual goes something like this: I wake up, kill time until noon when my local [...]
Via CNN, commentary on the role of race in sport:
For many nations — not least the US — the upcoming Paris Olympics will take place against a background of deep political and social division. Perhaps, though, the [...]
Via Politico, a look at how - at the Republican National Convention in 1968 - Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned [...]
Courtesy of Esquire, an article on why major league baseball has so few Black American players:
Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic . . . America’s game: has the snap, go, fling, of the American [...]
Via CBC, a report on the pioneering achievement of Eritrea's Biniam Girmay - the first Black cyclist to win a Tour de France stage:
Biniam Girmay grew up in Eritrea watching the Tour de France on TV each July with his [...]