Jonathan Eig is the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including Ali: A Life, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie ...
Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...
King and Robinson had “a very important relationship,” Eig said. “First of all, Jackie Robinson integrates baseball while King is still a teenager. Everybody is influenced by Jackie Robinson.
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2010. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
Senior Sports Reporter Noral Parham III sits down with Darren G. Davis to dicuss TidalWave Comics' releases for Black History ...
This biography is noted for its vivid writing ... A Life," "Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season," and "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig." ...
A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials believed him. Then it all fell apart.
There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...
A Political Ecology of Things,” argued, “there was never a time when human agency was anything other than an interfolding network of humanity and nonhumanity” (p. 31). The rocks’ refusal to be ...
333. He made a bases-loaded, game-saving shoetop catch off Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson in the seventh game in 1952. The next year, his record 12th hit drove in the winning run in the ninth inning ...