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The Integration of the Black QB
by Mike Florio
My son was born a year after quarterback Steve McNair entered the NFL. And so he didn't know much about McNair's background, or the circumstances that resulted in his name being the third called on that draft day in 1995.
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The First Super Bowl?
by Michael Louis-Ingram, BASN Associate Editor -- Feb 4, 2012 - 8:37:00 AM
If the NFL & AFL had decided to put on their Big Game one year earlier, would the TV Gods have bought it?
Black Man On A White Field
by John Greenya -- Feb 2, 2012 - 4:19:00 AM
In addition to playing halfback and receiver for the University of Maryland, Darryl Hill, the first black football player in the Atlantic Coast Conference, kicked extra points and returned punts, so during warm-ups he took the field before the rest of the team.
Paving The Way For The Ladies
by Tony McClean, BASN Editor In Chief -- Feb 2, 2012 - 4:17:00 AM
In 1938, the Wake Robin Club pushed the process of desegregating the District of Columbia's public courses by drafting and sending a petition to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes.
'A Wound That Never Healed'
by Michael Hudson -- Feb 1, 2012 - 3:27:00 AM
Paul Robeson became a hero to black Americans during the years before Joe Louis won the heavyweight crown and Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball. Lloyd L. Brown recalls, growing up as a child in Minnesota in the 1920s, how proudly people would speak the name of "Robeson of Rutgers."
Robinson inspired MLK, others
by Dick Kaegel -- Jan 13, 2012 - 7:34:00 AM
One aspect that the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, which is marking its 20th anniversary this year, emphasizes is the smashing of Major League Baseball's color barrier by a graduate of the Kansas City Monarchs.
by Mike FlorioMy son was born a year after quarterback Steve McNair entered the NFL. And so he didn't know much about McNair's background, or the circumstances that resulted in his name being the third called on that draft day in 1995.
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The First Super Bowl?by Michael Louis-Ingram, BASN Associate Editor -- Feb 4, 2012 - 8:37:00 AM
If the NFL & AFL had decided to put on their Big Game one year earlier, would the TV Gods have bought it?
Black Man On A White Field
by John Greenya -- Feb 2, 2012 - 4:19:00 AM
In addition to playing halfback and receiver for the University of Maryland, Darryl Hill, the first black football player in the Atlantic Coast Conference, kicked extra points and returned punts, so during warm-ups he took the field before the rest of the team.
Paving The Way For The Ladiesby Tony McClean, BASN Editor In Chief -- Feb 2, 2012 - 4:17:00 AM
In 1938, the Wake Robin Club pushed the process of desegregating the District of Columbia's public courses by drafting and sending a petition to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes.
'A Wound That Never Healed'
by Michael Hudson -- Feb 1, 2012 - 3:27:00 AM
Paul Robeson became a hero to black Americans during the years before Joe Louis won the heavyweight crown and Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball. Lloyd L. Brown recalls, growing up as a child in Minnesota in the 1920s, how proudly people would speak the name of "Robeson of Rutgers."
Robinson inspired MLK, others
by Dick Kaegel -- Jan 13, 2012 - 7:34:00 AM
One aspect that the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, which is marking its 20th anniversary this year, emphasizes is the smashing of Major League Baseball's color barrier by a graduate of the Kansas City Monarchs.
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