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...account of baseball’s color barrier, Satch, perhaps the greatest player in the history of the Negro Leagues, didn’t make his major league debut until 1948, when he was already 41 years...
When times were hard, when I was drowning in a sea of work and responsibility, when I didn’t think I was going to make it to graduation, I found myself singing “Hold On,” the old Negro spiritual that goes: “Hold on, just a little while longer / Hold on, just a little while longer / Hold on, just a little while longer / Everything will be alright / Everything will be alright...
...from the suburbs of Los Angeles would find strength in a song that was born out of the African Diaspora. My ancestors did not come to America on slave ships. They were not threatened, lynched, or discriminated against because of the color of their skin. They did not sing Negro spirituals...
Historian Winthrop Jordan's landmark 1968 book, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812, was not intended to critique modern race relations. But its layered research--which showed an absence of racism when whites and blacks first encountered each other as equals--proved that discrimination was not an ingrained American trait but a cruel and unusual choice...
...Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo del Toro’s “El Espinazo del Diablo” (“The Devil’s Backbone”) as well as documentaries such as “El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War” and “The Good Fight.” On March 13, The Crimson sat down with Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Bradley S. Epps to watch “Tierra y Libertad,” (“Land and Freedom?...