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NEW YORK — Major League Baseball has proposed a one-month delay in starting spring training due to the coronavirus pandemic and pushing back opening day to April 28, two people familiar with the plan told the Associated Press. Under the plan presented to the players' union on Friday, the regular
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Making the case for a strong Black economy in the 9th District
However, the most important point made is that Black Lives Matter, especially as it pertains to the work force of Memphis and the 9th
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MLB to start on time after players reject proposal to delay 2021 season | L.A. Focus News
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball will proceed with an on-time start to spring training and the season after players rejected a plan Monday night to delay reporting by more than a month. “In light of the MLBPA’s rejection of our proposal, and their refusal to counter our revised offer this
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Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who became a legend in his own lifetime by being known as perhaps the best pitcher in baseball history, by his longevity in the game, and by attracting record
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Too many African American children are born in shackles
Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist—often created by red-lining— worsened by savage inequality of schools and health care and job
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Walker, Moses Fleetwood (1857-1924)
Moses Fleetwood Walker, often called Fleet, was the first African American to play major league baseball in the nineteenth century. Born October 7, 1857, in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Walker was the fifth of six children born to parents, Dr. Moses W. Walker, a physician, and Caroline
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MLB Officially Elevates Negro Leagues To ‘Major League’ Status
The move is to correct “a longtime oversight."
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Phillips wants legal assurances on 2-in-1 election
President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, is demanding assurances that the legal and technical issues involved in staging both the local government and general elections on one ballot be ironed out before concluding on what would be a historic
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Jemele Hill Responds After Right-Wing Troll Resurfaces Transphobic Tweet From 2009
Atlantic contributor and sports journalist Jemele Hill took to Twitter to respond to a resurfaced tweet where she used a transphobic
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Jackson State announces Deion Sanders As Its Next Head Football Coach – Free Press of Jacksonville
By ESPN - Deion Sanders will be the next head football coach at Jackson State, he announced Sunday on his new podcast. 'God called me to Jackson State,' Sanders said on the first episode of [...]
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Mississippi Lawmakers Vote to Remove Rebel Emblem from Flag
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Even as Covid-19 Looms, an M.L.B. Rookie Is Ready to Play
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Grizzlies' virus-shortened road to playoffs is set for play
The Memphis Grizzlies finally got their roadmap to the playoffs when the NBA released the matchups for the remaining eight games for all teams that will be played in
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Fact Check: Major League Baseball Moves All-Star Game over Law that Expands Some Voting - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
Since the Georgia law expands voting access, MLB is arguably opposing voters' rights -- which, Democrats have argued elsewhere, is racist.
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Falmouth’s new artisan village to open soon – Bartlett
The new $700-million artisan village in Falmouth, Trelawny, which is poised to serve as a marquee tourist attraction in the resort town, is all but ready and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is hinting that it will be opened
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Men who said they were abused by former Red Sox clubhouse manager seek damages from team
The Red Sox recently promised to fight racism, but those words rang hollow for more than a dozen Black men who have spent the last several years trying to get the Red Sox to listen to their claims that they were sexually abused by a former team clubhouse manager who died in 2005.
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Jamaicans urged to protect pimento plants, bitterwood trees
THE National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is calling on individuals to desist from the unsustainable harvesting of pimento plants and the bitterwood
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A Liberal Dose of Sports.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Am I the only one who has noticed that the four major sports leagues in the U.S. have all made a conscious decision to promote radical liberal causes at the expense of simply being a sports
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Netflix series to dramatize Kaepernick’s path to activism
LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL
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LeBron James, Maverick Carter Named 1st Black Partners Of Fenway Sports Group
The Los Angeles Lakers star and Carter are now part owners of the Boston Red Sox and the Liverpool soccer team.
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Jackie Robinson
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Chadwick Boseman is an icon who played icons | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. The late actor Chadwick Boseman had a wealth of film experiences under his belt, and he was marvelous in all of them, including many others in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise besides “Black Panther,” which included “Captain America: Civil
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In The Wake Of Its 100th Anniversary, The Negro Leagues Will Be Officially Recognized By Major League Baseball - Blavity
Major League Baseball officials announce that the League will incorporate stats of Black players who played during the Negro National League era.
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Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Reached Out To Wisconsin Teen Who Was Set On Fire In Reported Hate Crime
Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry reportedly lent a message of support and assurance to Althea Bernstein, a 18-year-old young woman who was recently victimized in an alleged hate
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This Is Joe Biden's Baseball Boycott. | ThyBlackMan.com
(ThyBlackMan.com) For a uniter, President Joe Biden has a remarkable knack for figuring out new and destructive ways to divide Americans. His latest attempt to further split us falls back on one of his favorite themes: Race. Because, you know, we really haven't been divided across racial lines
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Americans never cease to bewilder, from the Oval Office occupant to its athletes, to its everymen/women. Last week was one of bewilderment and a hint at the nation’s promise.
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