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Atlanta Travel Baseball Team Embark on Humanitarian Mission to Puerto Rico

19/01/16 at 8.13am / by Michael / 0 Comment

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

Getting Down in the Gutter with Trump

19/01/09 at 8.50am / by Michael / 1 Comment

No one in the US House of Representatives will confuse Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) as the gentlelady from Michigan. How is that possible after her first day on the job in which she called the nation’s chief executive a Mother, you know what? Perhaps I should not be so mild mannered that I cannot say the word in public. Let’s have a go at it. She called Trump a “Motherfucker.” I see no need to put an asterisk in between the f and the r. We are in an era when the terms of communication have changed. In the age

On The Arrogance of Power in the White House

19/01/04 at 8.51pm / by Michael / 2 Comments

American Presidents have never been wilting violets with tiny egos. Once Richard M. Nixon averred out loud, that criminal activity is not criminal activity if committed by the President of the United States. Nixon believed it was lawful to order some of the President’s men to break into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters and steal their plans for defeating his reelection efforts. Also, any subsequent lies to cover up his involvement in the break-in was a legal exercise of the powers of the Office of the Presidency. After all the federal criminal code was designed to prosecute all other Americans

Should Major League Baseball Do More in Light of Cindy Hyde-Smith Donation?

18/11/26 at 5.50am / by Michael / 0 Comment

I’m sure had I met Cyn Marsh before I was introduced to baseball, she would have been my first love. But I didn’t. And although she is my ride or die today, she wasn’t my first love. I would not meet the future Mrs. Harvey until 22 years later. My uncles Paul and John introduced me to the game of baseball one Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1956. The adults took the kids outside to work off a delicious after-church meal of fried free-range chicken, mashed potatoes, butter beans, corn bread, and fresh blackberry cobbler. We used an old

HBCU Baseball Showcase Quickly Becoming Premier Event

18/11/05 at 9.10am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Under patches of gray in an otherwise blue sky, on a baseball diamond in urgent need to recover from a rain storm which swept through north Georgia the day before, assembled more than 100 Black high school baseball players. Some of them traveled a few blocks to the baseball field at Westlake High School in Atlanta, Georgia. Many of them traveled several hundred miles. One family took a red-eye out of Riverside, California 2,164 miles away so their son could display his talents to HBCU coaches. Another family drove 8 hours and one minute from St. Louis, Missouri to give

They Came for the Jews, Suddenly no one’s left

18/10/29 at 12.21pm / by Michael / 2 Comments

Finally, the Nazis, the Klan, the white brotherhood came for the Jews, just as they did in Hitler’s nationalist Germany; and suddenly there is no one else left to come to the aid of the defenseless, the vulnerable, the Blacks, the Christians, the Muslims, the immigrants, the poor. First they came for unarmed Black teenagers walking home on the streets of Florida and Missouri and in the drive-thru in Jacksonville. Then they came for a defenseless young lady in Texas, a group of elementary school children in Sandy Hooks, a group of African Methodists in Charleston and a father selling

Russians Trolling Black Voters -Appropriating Words of Malcolm X

18/10/20 at 10.24pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

Just 18 days before voters hit the booths in the 2018 midterm election and Russian trolls (for lack of a better definition) have launched a vigorous attack on Black voters with an old Malcolm X Speech. In the early 1960s Malcolm X broke down the Democratic Party as the northern wolves and the southern Dixiecrats. During this period of American history, Blacks were prohibited from voting in the Democratic Party Primaries in the South. These primaries were termed as the White Primary by southern Blacks. The White Primary determined the white Democrat who would represent the Democrats on the ballot

Time Up for Talking, Time to Early Vote

18/10/12 at 9.20am / by Michael / 0 Comment

By: Floyd L. Griffin, Jr. I think we all know what time it is. It is time up for talking. It’s time to early vote. Let me hasten to say that I am a Democrat. I make no apologies for believing in Democratic principles. There is nothing lukewarm about my support for Democratic governance. As a former politician, I have worked both sides of the room. I am pragmatic enough to know that in government we need our best ideas coming from both sides of the aisle. That said, a few weeks ago, I wrote an Op-Ed that was published

Don’t Forget the Down Ballot In Midterm

18/09/17 at 3.55pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

By Floyd L. Griffin This year year, don’t forget to vote the down ballot. I’ve been in politics for a very long time, probably far longer than I want to admit. I’ve cast votes in the Georgia General Assembly that at the time seemed liked the most important vote in my lifetime and the lifetime of the good people of Milledgeville who sent me to Atlanta. Like many of my neighbors, I’ve participated in national and local elections that were described at the time as the most important vote that we would ever cast. Certainly, one or two of the

Did He Say It or Didn’t He Say It and Does It Matter If He Said it?

18/08/18 at 5.48pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

Did Donald Trump say it or didn’t he say it and does it matter if he said it. The it being the “N” word, which stands for you know what, the name given to Black Americans by white Americans when they want to denigrate Black people and to flex their white supremacist muscles. Trump said he did not say it. Omarosa Manigault Newman said he said it. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she would not be surprised if there is a tape of him saying it. Georgia State Senator Michael Williams says it does not matter if Trump said it years

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