WILL HISTORIC KANSAS CITY SOCIAL JUSTICE CONNECTION DRAW CROWDS TO WATCH LOW-RENT BASEBALL?!?!
To be fair, it s possible that a successful merch campaign alone could float the team.
Accordingly, here s presser coverage
stolen quoted from newspaper hacks . . .
New owners of the Kansas City T-Bones baseball club in Kansas City, Kansas, announced Thursday morning that the team will adopt the name of Kansas City’s storied Negro Leagues team beginning this season.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, which owns rights to the Monarchs name, has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with the T-Bones. Beginning Thursday, the minor league team will be known as the Kansas City Monarchs Baseball Club. Officials hope the rebranding will bring more attention to both to the museum and to the beleaguered ball club in western Wyandotte County.Here s more hype coverage gleaned from a press kit that doesn t bother to ask any tough questions or note the teams sketchy financial fortune
As reported by PEOPLE. students will learn about civil rights icons through exhibits on Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; Muhammad Ali’s fight against systemic racism, there’s also a virtual scavenger hunt of George Washington Carver’s inventions, a tour of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum; and a reading of “Hidden Figures” and “Let the Children March” from NBA & NFL players, per the report.
Students will also learn about the history of slavery.
“We need to know our history so we can know what our future will look like,” former Seattle Seahawks player
Committed to Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion PBS SoCal and KCET Announce Robust Slate of Black History Month Broadcast and Streaming Content
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Local and National Virtual Events Planned for Upcoming Two-Part PBS Series THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG From Executive Producer/Writer/Host Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. With Goal of Increasing Community’s Historic Awareness and Celebrating Gospel Music
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Park University celebrated another historic and noteworthy year in 2019 as the University and its employees garnered national media attention, and earned
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Some 3,400 Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948, but it took 100 years for Major League Baseball to recognize them as major-league-caliber players and to enter their achievements in the historical record. Author Andrea Williams loves the sport, but early on, she found herself even more curious about the business that makes it work. Her curiosity led her to discover a little-known Black American woman named Effa Manley, the co-owner and business manager of the Negro Leaguesâ Newark Eagles. Williamsâ new nonfiction middle-grades book,
Baseballâs Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues, shows Manley as a pioneer who understood the value of the leagues, while others insisted it was inferior.Â