Long before Jackie Robinson, Black jockeys dominated and changed horse racing
In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
Black History Month column: Mathew Bones Hooks (1867-1951): Black cowboy and civic leader
Bones loved the prairie country and the orderly community; he made a name for himself as the top horse wrangler in that part ...
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Preserving horse racing’s colorful past: Georgetown honors Black blacksmiths
Horse racing runs deep not only through Kentucky's history but also through generations of African Americans. In Scott County ...
Arabian Horse, Aberford: The Yorkshire village pub with the only name of its kind in the country
This old coaching inn claims to be the only pub in the country with its unusual name.
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Adidas Is Once Again Taking Lessons From Wales Bonner With Its Own Pony Hair Sambas
Adidas borrowed a page from its Wales Bonner collaborations by dropping its own leopard print pony hair Sambas earlier this ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
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Don’t criticize Chiefs name, diversify: Let’s add the Samurai and the Tuskegee Airmen | Opinion
Maybe the answer to Native American symbols and team names isn’t less ethnicity ... And the image of Black and white young men who join together as the Fighting Irish and Mexican and Hawaiian ...