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Baseball Hall Adds Hank Aaron Statue As ‘Souls Of The Game’ Exhibit Opens
Forbes· 2 days agoAaron, the last active major-leaguer who once played in the Negro Leagues, is also one of two...
‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Review: Raoul Peck’s Documentary Rediscovers the Fearless Photographer...
Variety· 4 days agoIn “I Am Not Your Negro” (2016), his profound and lacerating portrait of James Baldwin, the director...
James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAfter a brief stint as U.S. minister to Turkey, Longstreet was appointed U.S. marshal for Georgia by President James Garfield. ...
Gerald Ensley: Two dimes on a city bus brought cultural upheaval
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoGov. LeRoy Collins, a Tallahassee native, stepped in to head off further violence. On Jan. 1, he...
Rickwood Field Trading Card Tour makes pit stop in STL
FOX 2 News St. Louis· 1 day agoTopps, a sports trading card manufacturer, is traveling with new cards in honor of the Negro Leagues. The most recent stop of the tour was in St. Louis.
Giant baseball card of Satchel Paige coming to Busch Stadium
FOX 2 News St. Louis· 3 days agoBaseball fans will have the opportunity to see a giant baseball card of Negro Leagues star pitcher Satchel Paige this weekend at Busch Stadium, a tribute ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals game at Ri…
Maria and the Conjure-Man
The Atlantic· 13 hours agoMaria was doing her weekly washing in our back yard, with our soap and tub and wash-board, finding that arrangement more convenient and economical than to wash at home. As she worked she kept ...
His San Diego death certificate says ‘suicide.’ Now he’s being recognized as California’s third...
KPBS San Diego· 2 days agoCollier boarded the Coronado ferry to San Diego. Explanations of what happened to Collier differed,...
Jackie Robinson is rebuilt in bronze after theft of statue from Kansas park
Los Angeles Times· 21 hours agoAs he coats a mold of Jackie Robinson with wax, metalsmith Alex Haines reflected on the extra importance of a project that will soon give the city of Wichita, Kan., a replacement bronze statue ...
The radical theatre that could have prevented Donald Trump’s rise
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoIn July 2023, The New York Times ran an article titled ‘American Theatre is Imploding Before Our...
