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Tuskegee Snaps Lane’s Ten Game Win Streak
Tuskegee snaps Lane’s ten game win streak
Atlanta Re-opens the 1970s Missing and Murder Children Cases
Over 40 years ago, the city of Atlanta, Georgia closed the books on the “missing and murdered” children cases. From about 1977 through 1981, 28 Black children and young adults disappeared from Atlanta streets in an impoverished section of the city. These youngsters, both male, and female were never again seen alive. Fear gripped Blacks in the city “too busy to hate.” The law enforcement authorities and the mainstream media was slow to recognize there was a mass murderer afoot in Atlanta. In the early days, save for reports in the Black-owned Atlanta Daily World newspaper, there was hardly any coverage given to
Mueller Clears Trump of Collusion-But Not Obstruction
Special Counsel Robert Mueller after a 22-month long investigation clears President Donald J. Trump of collusion with the Russians to influence the 2016 Presidential election. Mueller’s delivered his confidential report to Attorney General William Barr as required by law over the weekend. Then, Barr issued a four-page letter to leaders of the Senate and the House. Barr’s letter summarizes the critical findings of the Mueller report. Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election First, the Russian attempted to interfere with the 2016 Presidential election through (a), a disinformation campaign via social media designed to sow discord in the United States;
Now They Have Come for the Muslims
Now the white supremacists have come for the Muslims. They first came for Black Christians during a Wednesday night prayer meeting in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, next they came for a group of Gays partying in a night club in Orlando, Florida, then a group of Jews in a Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and now, Muslims in a Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. Every group on the planet has been gunned down by the white supremacists except normal white people who do not harbor the racial superiority ethos espoused by the Ayran nation. Now is the time for
In the Shadow of a King
H Charles Steele, Jr. was 22 years old on the day that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the third-floor balcony of a colored motel in Memphis, Tennessee. By that time, King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference had won two important victories. First, congressional passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This measure opened areas of public accommodations to the nation’s Negro citizens. Despite King’s work in this area, on his April 1968 visit to Memphis, he chose to patronize the Black-owned Lorraine Motel. Secondly, the next year, King did something that President Lyndon Baines Johnson had told
Atlanta Metro RBI’s Barnstorming Humanitarian Tour Across Puerto Rico: In the Spirit of Robinson, Clemente, and King
What better way to learn how to serve others than to walk in the footsteps of those who have done it? In January, a group of 13–15-year-old baseball players from Atlanta set out on a humanitarian mission to hurricane ravished Puerto Rico. They learned what it was like to barnstorm across Puerto Rico like Satchel Paige and other Negro League players who would travel to the Caribbean to play baseball during the offseason on the mainland. And they learned what it means to give back to others in the spirit of Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente and Dr. Martin Luther King,
Kentucky State’s Joe Crisp Tosses No-Hitter – Defeats Clark-Atlanta University 3–0
H They have been playing baseball since 1888 at Clark-Atlanta University. In fact, the first matchup between two Black college teams pitted Clark College against Atlanta University. The two schools consolidated 100 years later to become Clark-Atlanta University. Perhaps, few games have been as exciting as the Kentucky State University match against Clark-Atlanta University on February 16, 2019. Joe Crisp, at five feet and nine inches on a 155-pound frame, tossed his first collegiate no-hitter, striking out nine and winning the game 3–0. The 20-year-old married computer science major was in control of the game from the first pitch until
Blackface Caricatures Bigger Than Ralph Northam
H I was born at the midway point of the 20th century, around 10 in the morning in the middle of October. The day before my birth a white medical physician had driven out to the family farm. He placed my mom in the backseat of his car, lest any of the good white folk in town started a rumor that he was driving around rural Georgia with a Black woman seated next to him during the height of southern segregation. So, you will know, I was born under the curse of Plessy. The doctor drove her to the hospital in
Atlanta Travel Baseball Team Embark on Humanitarian Mission to Puerto Rico
H ATL METRO RBI is poised to give new meaning to the term travel ball, as much of youth league baseball today is played on travel baseball teams. At least the elite players are on teams that travel a few miles, and in some cases several thousand miles, to compete against other elite baseball players. Travel ball is all about baseball and acquiring elite baseball skills to advance to collegiate and professional play. This year, during the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday celebration (January 18–21), a time when the King family has urged the nation “to make it a