The NFL Once Banned All Black Players For 12 Years
The NFL has long had continuous struggles with discrimination and racism. In fact, for 12 years from 1934 to 1946, NFL team owners agreed to...
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Black Ice: African origins of the sport of Hockey
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Rewriting American History American history has always promoted the myth of the original thirteen colonies. In truth, at the time of the American Revolution, there...
Tom Molineaux- Slave fighter was America’s first boxing star
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A new TG4 documentary tells of Tom Molineaux, who boxed his way to freedom from slavery before he died destitute in Ireland, writes Richard Fitzpatrick...
How enslaved Blacks beating each other to near-death was a great source of entertainment and cash for white plantation owners
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While slaves in the U.S. could be called upon to perform for their owner’s forms of entertainment, such as singing and dancing, male slaves also...
Anita Lucette DeFrantz
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Champion rower Anita Lucette DeFrantz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1952. As a child growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana, she began her athletic career as a...
Washington’s last World Series team was not the Senators. It was a Negro League dynasty
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There was no celebration the last time a Washington baseball team won a World Series. No parade, no championship rings, no trophy awarded to the...
Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home
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Eighty years ago this month, the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, with 18 African-American athletes part of the...
JOCKEY CHERYL WHITE: BROKE RACIAL BARRIERS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HORSE RACING
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A little-known fact is Cheryl White was a jockey “gem” that most people never knew existed. She raced horses like only a few of the...
The first black professional footballer in the world was born in Ghana in 1865
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The story of football trailblazer Arthur Wharton is a very fascinating one. Though his legacy and impact were for a very long time buried and...
Ernest “Ernie” Eugene Barnes, Jr
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Ernest “Ernie” Eugene Barnes, Jr. (July 15, 1938 – April 27, 2009) was an African-American painter, well known for his unique style of elongation and...