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MVP – A Treasure Trove of Black Baseball Talent

17/07/16 at 11.43am / by Michael / 1 Comment

Mentoring Viable Prospects (MVP) is a treasure trove of Black baseball talent in America. Few college recruiters are aware of MVP. Steve Kletke, Canadian by birth and assistant baseball coach at Indian Hills Community College in Centerville, Iowa is one of them. He knows the value of Black college baseball players to a college program. In July, Kletke traveled from Iowa to Decatur, Georgia to scout Black high school prospects competing in the Mentoring Viable Prospects (MVP) program, a three day baseball showcase organized 15 years ago by a group of Atlanta area coaches who played Black College baseball. The

It’s A Myth Black Kids Do Play Baseball

17/07/15 at 12.52am / by Michael / 9 Comments

Is it a myth, that Black kids are not playing baseball in sufficient numbers to field the rosters of college and professional teams? The MVP program in Decatur, Georgia has been on a 14 year mission to not only disprove this myth, but provide a showcase for urban kids to display their baseball skills. MVP is not an acronym for Most Valuable Player. It actually means, Mentoring Viable Prospects. For nearly a decade and a half, MVP has worked in the shadows of youth league baseball to give first class showcase experiences to inner-city teenagers. They do not expect any

Is Hopkins A Victim of GOP Voter Roll Purge?

17/07/07 at 8.59am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Make no bones about it, Stacey A. Hopkins, has been politically active most of her life. The Brooklyn, New York native with roots in Atlanta, came south several years ago. She has been quite active of late in progressive politics. But a letter she received from state election officials in Georgia may have landed her in the biggest political fight of her life. Georgia like most states run by Republican politicians is focused upon ways to find voter fraud. If they can find enough cases that resemble illegal voter registration they will pounce on them as proof of their theory

Georgia Voter Questions Change of Voter Status

17/07/06 at 5.51am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Stacey A. Hopkins, a registered voter in Fulton County, Georgia is questioning a letter she received from Georgia election officials. The letter states that Hopkins, a member of Georgia’s progressive political action community, will be moved to a list of inactive voters if she does not return a form to the Secretary of States office which requests personal information within 30 days. Additionally, two of Hopkins’ young adult children still living at home received the same notice via the United States Postal Service. Hopkins does not understand why she received this notice from either the Secretary of State of Georgia

All Trump Tweets Are Not Newsworthy

17/07/03 at 6.37pm / by Michael / 2 Comments

This may come as a shock to many in the mainstream news media. I really hate to tell them this obvious fact: All Trump tweets are not newsworthy. Certainly, DJT is the President of the USA, but everything uttered by way of the twitter feed @realDonaldTrump is not worthy to be included in a 24-hour news cycle. For instance, what if DJT tweeted (and he just might do this any day now), the events of his most recent visit to the comfort facilities in the Oval Office. Maybe in the same vein as President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had a penchant for

This Could Be The Last Free 4th of July, I Don’t Know

17/07/02 at 1.35pm / by Michael / 2 Comments

It all began with fireworks in 1776, an explosive firecracker was ignited, that lit a spark under the colonies to chart a course to be free from British rule. But this year, 2017 could be the last free 4th of July the United States of America experiences. I just don’t know how America can remain free after Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with American President Donald J. Trump later this week. There meeting will follow the nation’s celebration of 241 years of freedom from a European tyrant. Why am I concerned? I am concerned because for the first time

Stein Welcomes Chance To Testify Before Congress

17/07/02 at 1.47am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Jill Stein, the 2016 Green Party Presidential candidate, says she welcomes a chance to testify before Congress concerning a dinner she attended in Russian during a December 2015 trip abroad. At this dinner, former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian President Vladimir Putin were seated across the table from her. Flynn later was fired from his position as head of NSA when revelations were uncovered that he had lied to Vice President Pence concerning whether he had failed to disclose this meeting with Putin and other top ranking Russian officials. The Green Party nominee was drawn into

Andres Castillo Grambling Catcher Dies in Fatal Accident

17/06/29 at 11.52am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Andres Castillo described as the life of the Grambling clubhouse by players and coaches was involved in a tragic motorcycle accident on June 23 in Tampa, Florida. Castillo played catcher for the Tigers during the 2015 baseball season. He had previously played collegiately at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas and prior to that he played at Wasbash Valley College in Mount Carmel,Illinois. “He was a great teammate,” said Wesley Drain a teammate of Castillo at both Wasbash and Grambling. “He was never quite. He was always talking, joking and dancing,” Drain added. “Hearing about the news about Castillo just broke

Steele Is Still Making Moves At SCLC

17/06/25 at 9.40am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Dr. Charles Steele, Jr, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is still making moves at SCLC as he makes plans for their 59th convention. The organization first convened in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1957 to chart a course to eliminate “war, poverty and injustice.” This year the group’s convention will meet in Memphis, Tennessee, July 20-22. It will be the 49th year that the organization has gathered since its principle organizer and fundraiser, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in that city, April 4, 1968. Many believed in 1968 that SCLC died with

Another Cop Gets Away With Killing A Black Man

17/06/24 at 10.04am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Another cop has essentially gotten away with killing a Black man in the USA. Ray Tensing, a former University of Cincinnati police officer can breathe a sigh of relief as a second jury has deadlocked in the shooting death of Samuel Dubose. Tensing pulled Dubose over near the University of Cincinnati campus after detecting that Dubose was missing one of two license plates the State of Ohio requires. Dubose produced a bill of sale to show ownership of the vehicle, but Tensing insisted that Dubose explain whether his car was properly registered with the state. When Dubose realized that he

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