PREFACE
The time has not yet come for a complete history of
the Negro peoples. Archaeological research in
Africa has just begun, and many sources of information
in Arabian, Portuguese, and other...
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The English statesman William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) led the Liberal party and served as prime minister. His strong religious sense was an integral part of his political and social policies.Willi...
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William Ewart Gladstone's enduring fame arises from his long and distinguished career in politics. He was prime minister four times (1868-1874; 1880-1885; 1886; and 1892-1894), and he, more than any o...
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"A book collector ought as I conceive," Gladstone wrote to Bernard Quaritch on 9 September 1896, "to possess the following six qualifications: appetite, leisure, wealth, knowledge, discrimination, and...
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BOSTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Buck O'Neil will have a place in
the Baseball Hall of Fame after all, with a statue of the Negro
Leagues advocate going up in the Cooperstown museum and an
Award to be n...
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Buck O'Neil was posthumously awarded the nation's highest civilian honor Friday, cited for a life in baseball after being barred from the national pastime in his prime.The Negro Leagues player, his...
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Bill Pinkney, the last survivor of the original members of the musical group The Drifters, died Wednesday. He was 81.Pinkney was found dead at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Daytona Be...
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Maggie Lena Walker (1867--1934) overcame racial discrimination, poverty and sexism to become the first female bank founder and president.She championed black American and women's causes and worked ...
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First came No. 42, and No. 14 wasn't far behind. Larry Doby, who followed Jackie Robinson across baseball's color barrier as the AL's first black player, will have his legacy honored when every mem...
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Samuel Isaac WeissmanST. LOUIS (AP) _ Samuel Isaac Weissman, a professor and chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, has died. He was 94.Weissman died Tue...
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Larry Whiteside, a baseball writer in Boston, Kansas City and Milwaukee for almost half a century who was a pioneer for blacks in journalism and a mentor for reporters regardless of their race, die...
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It's one of baseball's great ironies, an injustice that's befallen more than one Hall of Famer.A starter works his heart out. He sweats. He grinds. Inning after grueling inning, he makes quality pi...
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Pinch-hitter Jason Varitek singled in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning, and the Boston Red Sox got home runs from David Ortiz and Coco Crisp in a 7-6 victory over the sinking Baltimore Orioles ...
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Food and music are always good excuses for excursions, and you can combine them in an early summer trip to a hot destination in the heart of the continent. Kansas City, Mo., of course.The 3rd annua...
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The Negro
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
Baseball-O'Neil gets place in Hall of Fame after all
