Just Three Miles from His Southwest Atlanta Home In 2017, the Atlanta Braves packed up and moved the team twenty miles north of Turner Field, less than a mile outside the city limits, but clear into the next county. …

Built One Dollar at a Time One day during the summer of 2017, I drove out to the Georgia State University Baseball Complex. A friend had told me about Mentoring Viable Prospects (MVP), an enormously popular baseball tournament serving primarily Black high school baseball players that had been in existence…

Braves World Series Trophy Tour to Highlight Sunday’s Double Hitter The Maroon Tigers of Morehouse College won their first game since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down baseball at the premiere all-male HBCU on Saturday, defeating Tuskegee University 8–4. Saturday’s game was the prelude for a weekend series that will feature…

Calls Black Prosecutors in New York and Atlanta Racist The twice impeached President is at it again. Last year on January 6, 2021, angry he lost after one term, he incited a mob to storm the United States Congress and placed the lives of Vice President Mike Pence and incoming…

Attacks Mounting Against Biden’s Intent to Nominate a Black Woman It came as quite a surprise when critics of a piece I wrote on President Biden’s intent to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court began to infer that to write about this topic somehow was a racist act…

Marker in Robinson’s Georgia Hometown Damaged by Vandals Like fellow Georgian, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson was a peacemaker. Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, on January 31, 1919, nearly 13 months before Andrew Foster organized the United States Baseball League, a league for Negro players, designed to compete…

Two Democrats Key to Appointment of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court Now that Justice Stephen Breyer has officially announced his retirement from the United States Supreme Court, Democrats are delighted that President Joe Biden will make good on his campaign promise to appoint a Black woman to the…

Marcus Smith and James Cooper Stepping into Their Dreams Growing up in College Park, Georgia, Marcus Smith enjoyed playing baseball. It was a sport he excelled in, playing out of Old National Park from age six to fourteen. He earned an athletic scholarship to Albany State University, his mom’s alma…

The Civil Rights Leader Would Be 93 Years Old This Year Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the pre-eminent civil rights advocate of the 20th century, was gunned down by an assassin 39 years into his extraordinary life. This January 15, 2022, Dr. King would have been 93 years old. …