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...gloves, the widening of the country or the times of the games, the exclusion of black players in Cobb's day may be the best point on Rose's side of the comparative arguments. But Cobb would not have had it any other way. Racist remarks, particularly about Negro ancestry, were his favorites. Even the affamble Babe chided him, "I don't mind being called a son of a bitch or a bastard, but ... none of that personal stuff...
...building of a new stadium will also help boost community support. The city has, at least, a historic love of the game. Black fans in the '20s, though forced into segregated stands, turned out in droves for the Senators, and later for the Homestead Grays, who won eight Negro National League titles in nine years from 1937 to 1945--which led many fans to lobby to name the new team the Grays. Says Williams: "I'm hoping we can still find a way to celebrate the forgotten tradition of baseball in D.C." --By Jeninne Lee-St. John
DIED. GEORGE SCOTT, 75, booming baritone and founding member of the gospel group Blind Boys of Alabama, who met at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1936 and recorded gospel versions of songs by Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder; a month after winning a fourth consecutive Grammy Award; in Durham...
...European counterparts. If a black baby manages to survive her first year, the mere fact that she is black makes her more likely to be malnourished, impoverished, incarcerated, raped, infected with AIDS and violently killed. Our world today is not so different from Garvey’s. The downtrodden Negro race is no more, but it has been replaced by a people who still suffer from the same racial inequalities across national and continental boundaries...
...suffering, but suffering and poverty have a near-complete monopoly on black folk everywhere. In his famous “Handwriting on the Wall” speech, Garvey declared, “Whether it is Africa, or America or Europe, the world is cold and indifferent to the Negro.” In light of the global community’s refusal to forgive the debts of predominantly black developing nations, to fulfill its promised contributions to fighting AIDS, to meet or even seriously consider the millennium development goals to eradicate poverty and hunger, to intervene in the atrocities...