MLB task force recommends seven Negro Leagues for major league status
The task force is examining leagues excluded in 1969 when a special committee on baseball records identified just six official major leagues dating to 1876.
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NEW YORK Seven Negro Leagues have been recommended for major league status by a task force of the Society for American Baseball Research.
The announcement Thursday followed Major League Baseball’s decision on Dec. 16 that it was reclassifying the Negro Leagues to majors. They had been excluded in 1969 when a special committee on baseball records identified six official major leagues dating to 1876.
SABR recommended big league status for the Negro National League I (1920-31), Negro National League II, (1933-48), Negro American League (1937-48), Eastern Colored League, (1923-28), American Negro League (1929), East-West League 932) and Negro Southern League (1932).
Remembering Rosa Parks on the anniversary of her birth
By Monica Moorehead posted on February 8, 2021
When I was three years old in 1955, my parents lived in Montgomery, Ala. They attended the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where they heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preach every Sunday. That church would eventually become an historic organizing center for one of the most important struggles of the 20th century when a tired, but brave African American seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus on Dec. 1, 1955.
Rosa Parks at the time of her arrest, 1955
Kentuck Art Night Happens Thursday with COVID-19 Protocols
Kentuck Art Night Happens Thursday with COVID-19 Protocols
The February Kentuck Art Night takes place on Thursday, February 4, 2021, from 5 pm until 7 pm. It will feature the exhibit “Good Trouble: Civil Rights Past and Present”. It will be in the Kentuck Museum Gallery, Teer Gallery, and SoNo Gallery.
The free event will be socially distant, and masks will be required. The Kentuck group reminds you that registration by February 4th at noon is required to attend the event. It will be an in-person and socially distant occasion. If you are interested in attending, click here to register.
Civil Rights Past and Present at Upcoming Kentuck Art Night
Civil Rights Past and Present at Upcoming Kentuck Art Night
How exciting, there will be an upcoming Kentuck Art Night. The free event will be socially distant, and masks will be required. It all takes place on Thursday, February 4, 2021, from 5 pm until 7 pm.
The February Kentuck Art Night will feature the exhibit “Good Trouble: Civil Rights Past and Present. It will be in the Kentuck Museum Gallery, Teer Gallery, and SoNo Gallery. The Facebook Event page notes that the “exhibiting artists will be Tony Bingham, Lynthia Edwards, That’s Sew Gee’s Bend, Darius Hill, John “Jahni” Moore, Ruth Robinson, Sir Chris Da R Tist, Yvonne Wells, and Bernard Wright.”
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York s Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history. The league said Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, it was correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)
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NEW YORK (AP) Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total.