A general view of Truist Park as the National Anthem is performed with a flyover prior to an MLB game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Truist Park on April 9, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Todd Kirkland/Getty Images
The leaders of a black pro-life group have written a letter to Major League Baseball slamming the sports franchise for pulling its annual All-Star Game out Atlanta in the wake of backlash against an election reform bill recently passed in Georgia.
Kevin McGary and Neil Mammen, the co-founders of Every Black Life Matters, an organization that works to “protect black life from conception to death,” wrote an open letter to the MLB asking, “Where is the same courage as Branch Rickey?” They were referring to the late Branch Rickey, who signed Jackie Robinson as the first African American MLB player in 1947.
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