By Mark Gray Zenger News From the moment he stepped on the yard at Delaware State University, Darnerien McCants was a game-changer. He wanted to play basketball at the only historically black college and university in America’s first state, but it was football that came easily and gave him the platform to achieve in education. […]
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Colin Kaepernick: Timeline of a Gesture and its Echoes
By BARRY WILNER, AP Pro Football Writer Colin Kaepernick was a second-round draft pick in 2011. The next year he led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl. By 2016, he had begun kneeling on the sideline at games during the national anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality. Soon after, he was […]
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Legendary NBA Star Wes Unseld Dies at 74
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Wes Unseld was one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and a world champion with the Washington Bullets. But, he was also known as a man of great integrity, who became a vital community leader in his adopted hometown of Baltimore. Unseld died today from pneumonia […]
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NFL Roger Goodell’s Statement on Floyd’s Death Deemed ‘Disingenuous
By AFRO Staff NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s statement on the death of George Floyd is being slammed as hypocritical by detractors. The NFL family is greatly saddened by the tragic events across our country,” Goodell said in his statement, which was posted on Twitter May 30. “The protesters’ reactions to these incidents reflect the pain, […]
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Magic Johnson Announces $100 Million in Loans for Business Owners of Color
(Black PR Wire) — Since April, when the $2 trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill was passed and the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) began to address COVID-19’s financial hits, the first study to look at the novel coronavirus’ impact on Black and Latinx business owners, conducted by the Color Of Change and UnidosUS, found […]
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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia National Football League teams must now interview at least two minority candidates for head coaching positions under new resolutions that the league hopes will improve diversity among its 32 teams. In an expansion of its Rooney Rule, which had previously called on teams to interview minority […]
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Vanderbilt’s Lee Becomes SEC’s 1st Woman Athletic Director
By TERESA M. WALKER, AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt has removed the interim title, making Candice Storey Lee the first woman to become an athletic director in the Southeastern Conference. With Vanderbilt’s announcement Wednesday, Lee now is among only five women and the second Black woman in charge of a Power Five […]
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Documentary Stamps Prince George’s Basketball Skills
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Although it is a Maryland suburb with one of some of America’s wealthiest Blacks per capita, Prince George’s County is somewhat overshadowed in national attention by the major city it borders- the nation’s capital. However, in the new documentary “Basketball County: In the Water,” area natives and basketball […]
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Giants DB Baker Surrenders to Police in Armed Robbery Case
The Associated Press New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker turned himself in to police on May 16 at the Broward County Jail. Baker has been charged with four counts of armed robbery with a firearm and four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. His lawyer, Bradford Cohen, says he has affidavits that will prove […]
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Bob Watson, All-Star Slugger and Executive, Dies at 74
By Dennis Waszak Jr. AP Sports Writer Bob Watson, an All-Star slugger who became the first Black general manager to win a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996, has died. He was 74. The Houston Astros, for whom Watson played his first 14 seasons in a baseball career spanning six decades, announced […]
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Browns Re-Sign WR Higgins After Stunted 2019 Season
By TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Rashard Higgins is back on Cleveland’s roster. It remains to be seen if he’s back in the game plan. Higgins’ signing to a one-year, $910,000 contract was made official Friday by the Browns, who brought back the free agent following a strange 2019 season for the […]
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Majority of NFL First Round Picks Have Black Agents
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Seventeen of the 32 selections Thursday night counted African Americans among their representatives. (More than one agent represents some players.) The scattered remote locations did nothing to diminish the significance of the milestone for a group of elite, mostly under-40, African American agents. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia […]