Bill Bruton’s Fight for the Full Integration of Baseball
As the 2019 baseball season is among us and Major League Baseball (MLB) is doing its annual dance with Jackie
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Author: Louis Moore
Black Fans, Protest, and Power
Playing the role of the heel, white wrestler Rod Rivera looked up at the segregated balcony in New Orleans’s Municipal
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Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement
Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of
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Top 10 of 2018 – #6 – There Is No NFL Without Black Labor
*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number
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Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics
Black fists. Black men. Black pride. That’s how we will always remember bronze medalist John Carlos and gold medalist Tommie
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