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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Major League Baseball would benefit from being the first sport to return to play after the pandemic swarmed the globe and claimed tens of thousands of lives. The league would also reap […]

Mark Medina –  Back when he shocked the world and announced he was diagnosed with HIV, perhaps only Magic Johnson truly believed he would still be alive. Johnson has been proved correct for just over […]

Written by BET Staff – Timothy Brown, best known for his days in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and then later as an actor who appeared on the mega-hit series M*A*S*H, has died. He was […]

By Terry Shropshire, RollingOut.com — Prosecutors relied on testimony from the informant, who alleged that Johnson forked over a handsome stack of bills to have rising gang member Dominic Bolden kill the suspected shooters. The […]

By Janell Ross  Most fictional claims about black immunity to the coronavirus are connected to a long history of contradictory but uniformly racist ideas. The news last week that NBA player Rudy Gobert, a Frenchman […]

This article was written by Joseph Wancho “It was a tremendous day for me, a day I’ll always remember, the biggest day of my life in baseball.” — Frank Robinson1 On August 21, 1974, the Cleveland Indians […]

When Mitchell joined the Redskins in 1962, they became the last NFL team to integrate. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Bobby Mitchell, the speedy Hall of Famer who became the Washington Redskins’ first black player, has died. […]

BY DERRICK Z. JACKSON UConn, for example, graduates 100% of its basketball athletes Ellen Tripp, director of the University of Connecticut’s Student-Athlete Success Program, gets angry when she hears stale, patronizing reasons that the university and […]

National Brotherhood of Skiers co-founder and South Sider joins pal Benjamin Finley as first African American U.S. Ski Hall of Famers ‘A black skier? Come on. Blacks don’t ski.” Arthur Clay has heard that comment […]

by Brent Brookhouse Mayweather was a world champion in two weight classes before becoming an accomplished boxing trainer Roger Mayweather, a former two-division world champion, accomplished trainer and uncle to boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr., has […]