Major League Baseball has officially recognized the Negro Leagues as major league teams — 100 years after their creation. The seven leagues, which played from 1920 to 1948, will have their stats and ...

On Dec. 16, 2020, Sean Gibson awoke in Pittsburgh to a few inches of freshly fallen snow and a flurry of missed calls from friends and reporters. Major League Baseball had just announced it was ...

All attempts to settle the question of the Negro in the South by his removal from this country have so far failed, and I think that they are likely to fail. The next census will probably show that we ...

THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North’s big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes. In 1,551 U.S. cities, ...

It is a sad comment on our society (read: US) that this question can actually exist. It is a shame that racism was so prevalent in the first half of the 20th century that blacks (or African-Americans ...

Josh Gibson, one of the greatest sluggers in the history of the Negro Leagues, could become big league baseball’s single-season batting average record holder with the .441 mark he set 77 years ago.

Who’s the greatest baseball player of all time? Up until this week, that question was up for debate in America’s national pastime’s divided record books between two leagues: Major League Baseball (MLB ...

The Negro National League was founded in 1920 during a time of segregation in the United States. The league gained traction through the 1930s and '40s. In 1944, Jackie Robinson, who played for the ...

WASHINGTON After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era ...

On Wednesday, Major League Baseball announced that Negro League statistics have been officially incorporated into the Major League record. Seven Negro Leagues were elevated to "Major League" status in ...

In the rathskeller of Milwaukee’s Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., a Koda-chrome-Color movie had its premiere last fortnight. The cast included Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Commentator Robert Trout, ...