Becoming the first Black player to star in the MLB, Jackie Robinson suffered
from taunts and threats, but being aggressive on the field he managed to stay
perfectly calm in daily life. The 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s historic
Major League…
Black kids suffer more than Children of any other nation in America.
More than 6.5 of every 100,000 black Children under the age of 12 suffer fatal
injuries compared to a rate of 2.1 for Hispanics, 2.2 for whites and 2.3 for
Asians, the report…
“My paintings were about people that were part of my life,” Mr. Hendricks
said in one interview. “If they were political, it’s because they were a
reflection of the culture we were drowning in.” Barkley L. Hendricks, a painter
who celebrated Black…