Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoring” the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. “Baseball was not just a pastime for Black people,” said Myers. “It was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came together” during American apartheid.
Join us in person for Juneteenth vibes with Prof. Gerald Horne’s book signing & lecture!
Most people think Juneteenth was simply when Texas slaves learned they were free, but that is a myth. But the fight for freedom did not end with one proclamation; it took months of occupation and…
Kenyan McDuffie says D.C. must crack down to stave off the Trump administration. Janeese Lewis George argues that plays into Trump’s hand.
We all know what lies behind the deafening silence that oppresses us. Without any consultation of our will, they intend to strip us of sovereignty, independence, natural resources, autonomy, rights,…
In this week’s segment, we discuss the Delaney Hall immigration jail in New Jersey. Detainees have been on hunger strike in protest of inhumane conditions, and protests and arrests have taken place…
