From 1920 to 1948, Black baseball players barred from the Major Leagues could only play in what were called Negro Leagues. As a result many of their accomplishments have been forgotten. But on ...

Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States for close to 100 years. But what is it, exactly, and how did it begin? In the years after Reconstruction, campaigning for the importance of ...

In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back in time ...

In the rathskeller of Milwaukee’s Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., a Koda-chrome-Color movie had its premiere last fortnight. The cast included Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Commentator Robert Trout, ...

THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North’s big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes. In 1,551 U.S. cities, ...

The Census Bureau announced Monday that it would drop the word "Negro" from its forms, after some described it as offensive. According to the Associated Press, the term will be replaced next year by ...

“It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.” Editor’s Note: We’ve ...

The Negro Leagues are still referred to by that name, without any socially unacceptable connotation. In 2020, Major League Baseball officially designated the seven leagues that existed from 1920 to ...

On June 13, 1968, just two short months after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., author and playwright James Baldwin found himself on the set of the Dick Cavett Show, ABC's (then) ...

“The insensate greed of our ancestors took this simple folk from their dark land and placed them in our fields and by our firesides. Here they have multiplied to millions, and have been forced without ...

Negro League statistics from 1920-48 have been integrated into MLB's record book. Josh Gibson is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS. Babe Ruth has long been ...

Hundreds of Black athletes who were shut out of Major League Baseball a century ago are now officially a part of it. The MLB announced on Wednesday that it has incorporated the statistics of more than ...