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Buck O’Neil—the MLB’s first Black coach—was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

NBA champion Giannis Antetokounmpo acquired an ownership stake in the Milwaukee Brewers.

News sources are reporting that the baseball fan at a Colorado Rockies game accused of repeatedly yelling the N-word to a Black player was instead actually shouting out the name of the team mascot.

Minnesota sports teams postponed games Monday out of respect for Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Brooklyn Center man killed by police during a traffic stop on Sunday.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and House Speaker David Ralston are placing the blame on everyone except for themselves.

The baseball hero overcame defining odds as one of the most prolific athletes over the last century. He died on Jan. 22 from an unknown cause.

Bianca Smith has made history as the MLB’s first Black woman coach.

The icon would have been 100 years old today.

The 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s historic Major League Baseball debut took place on April 15th with the entire league honoring the late second baseman’s contribution to the sport.   Becoming the first Black player to star in the MLB, Robinson endured taunts and threats, choosing a silent grace away from the field but aggressive […]

Lamar and his label Top Dawg Music are being sued for using a Bill Withers sample in his song “I Do This,” featured on his 2013 mixtape.

On Thursday, officials in Philadelphia passed a resolution that not only honors Major League Baseball legend Jackie Robinson's color barrier-breaking appearance in the city in 1947 but also serves as a formal apology. On April 15, the day that Robinson shattered the barrier, his widow will receive a formal apology for the mistreatment her husband faced, NBC Philadelphia reports.

Baseball has lost one of its most beloved ambassadors with the passing of Hall of Fame inductee and Negro League legend Monte Irvin. Irvin, who was named Major League Baseball’s first Black executive, was 96. Born February 25, 1919 in Haleburg, Ala., Irvin and his family relocated to Orange, N.J. when he was young. While […]