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...million to expand its Diversity Program, which O'Ree, 72, helps direct. When the NHL started its diversity initiative, there were 5 inner-city hockey programs in North America. Now, there are 39. This year, the league has expanded its "Hockey in the Hood" tournament to include more teams. Coleman himself is a product of these efforts. "There are more kids of color playing hockey today than ever before," says O'Ree, though there's no statistical proof to back this claim...
...know, I don't understand why you're playing that white man's game. So stupid." For Gerald Coleman, a goaltending prospect in the Anaheim Ducks organization, those words still sting, like a high-stick to the forehead. At the time Coleman, an African-American who grew up in Chicago, was in the ninth grade, and he just told the high school basketball coach that he was picking hockey over hoops. Despite those discouraging words, and the frequent racial taunts he received while playing youth hockey, Coleman stuck with the skates, and became a promising...
...that Coleman, now 22, is an exception to the rule is a vast understatement. Few black kids have made the same choices as him. Even fewer face this decision in the first place, since most African-American kids ignore hockey altogether. "I just never thought about playing that sport," says DeQuanta Higgins, 14, after a game of pickup hoops with his brother and cousins in Atlanta. "It's just fun playing basketball...
...Arts at Harvard], who wanted her to do a Learning from Performers event.” Renowned trumpeter Marcus Belgrave mentored Allen in her hometown of Detroit; since then, she has played and recorded with a seemingly endless list of notable and diverse musicians—Bill Cosby, Steve Coleman, Betty Carter, Ravi Coltrane, and Marianne Faithfull, to name but a few. Allen has also put out a dozen albums. Most recently, the Walt Whitman Arts Center and Meet the Composer commissioned her to write “For the Healing of the Nations,” a jazz piece...
...teams exchanged buckets until Wolverines sophomore Ron Coleman nailed a three from the corner to give Michigan its second and largest lead of the game, 45-42, with 8:40 remaining...