HBCU’S History Delaware State University

HBCU’S History Delaware State University

History The Delaware College for Colored Students, now known as Delaware State University, was established May 15, 1891, by the Delaware General Assembly under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1890 by which land-grant colleges for Blacks came into existence in...
Negro League Baseball Economics

Negro League Baseball Economics

Negro League Baseball and The African-American Economy Published 4 years ago on February 17, 2014 By TheVillageCelebration By Robert J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen In 1883, when Chicago White Stockings’ star, Cap Anson, refused to compete against a Toledo, Ohio team...
Negro Leagues Baseball History

Negro Leagues Baseball History

INTEGRATION AND THE END OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES By that point, the push to integrate major league baseball was slowly gaining steam. In 1942, former UCLA athletic star Jackie Robinson and another black player named Nate Moreland were granted a cursory workout with the...
Louis Santop

Louis Santop

Louis Santop American baseball player Louis Santop Loftin (January 17, 1890 – January 22, 1942) was an African-American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues. He became “one of the earliest superstars” and “black baseball’s first legitimate...
Monte Irvin

Monte Irvin

Monte Irvin American baseball player Monford Merrill “Monte” Irvin (February 25, 1919 – January 11, 2016) was an American left fielder and right fielder in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who played with the Newark Eagles (1938–42,...
Larry Dolby

Larry Dolby

Larry Doby American baseball player Lawrence Eugene Doby (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball’s color barrier. A...
Leon Day

Leon Day

This article was written by Thomas Kern “If we had one game to win, we wanted Leon to pitch.” — Monte Irvin   So much of Leon Day’s story is caught up in his last years and his long wait for the Hall of Fame call. For Day, who spent a lifetime exceeding at...
The Whitest Historically Black College in America

The Whitest Historically Black College in America

A Snapshot of an HBCU That’s 90 Percent White For decades HBCUs have been enrolling increasing numbers of non-black students. At Bluefield State College though, whites are in the overwhelming majority. Julianne Hing  OCT 18, 2013 3:35PM EDT still from Bluefield...
Father Of Free Agency

Father Of Free Agency

Curt Flood: The Forgotten Free Agent provided by The Third City James Kay, Sports Editor February 26, 2015 For this week’s Black History Month athlete in focus, I will be profiling an athlete who has fallen off the radar despite being one of the most important figures...