“42” – cuarenta y dos in Spanish – is the story of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball’s first black player. There are some significant changes in his beloved game that
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The city’s move to unload the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Bowman Gray Stadium makes good financial sense. The venues aren’t cash cows, and long gone are the days
The recent Wall Street Journal editorial, “California’s Pay-to-Play Bill,” is another example of the hypocrisy that plagues college sports. The newspaper’s parent company, News Corps, is launching its new sports
You can call it the “bandwagon effect,” or “political opportunism” or, the “wake-up-call effect,” or, less cynically, an old American tradition. Whatever you call it, in the last month it
Curt Hazelbaker, the CEO of the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina, vowed that the Winston Lake Family Y would have
One year later, the Trayvon Martin tragedy still stings – and some people are still throwing salt on the open
It’s 2013, not 1950, but someone forgot to tell our federal court system that. The N.C. NAACP is again voicing
In January 2004, as the president of TransAfrica Forum, I had the honor of leading the first African American delegation
Editorial: Criticism of President still taboo
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been called a pastor’s pastor, a preaching master who’s like the opposite of March: comes