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Generally considered the first Black professional ballplayer, Bud Fowler (top row, center) spent the 1885 season with the Keokuk (Iowa) Hawkeyes. (Photo: National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum) Frederick Douglass disapproved of base ball (as the name was written in the 1860s). To the great abolitionist, who had escaped enslavement in 1838, sports — alongside […]
This is an adapted excerpt from the Nov. 9 episode of “Velshi.” Politics is easier for most of us when the democratic ideals we cherish triumph — or at least persist. However, to be politically engaged is to not only risk losing in an election, but also to be prepared, and willing, to lose. It’s […]
CNN — Call it the Miracle on Grass. A national cricket team that most Americans didn’t even know they had beat one of the sport’s global powers Pakistan, for whom the game is a national obsession. The triumph Thursday in the . . .
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