By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter Everybody was giving each other the high fives and back-slapping each other with two African American quarterbacks in the Super Bowl but there is an elephant in the room tearing up all the furniture. The Washington Football Club and the Kansas City Chiefs made it very clear… We don’t […]
Read more "THE BLACK CEILING"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter Fans are frustrated by intruding politics in their favorite sports bring to light the struggles of African Americans in the United States and Black people around the world. These fans are stating they do not want politics in their sport of choice. The claims of politics became more strident after […]
Read more "NO POLITICS IN SPORTS, RIGHT??"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter The United States of America celebrated it’s birthday on Monday, July 4th, 2022. African Americans, women, and other minorities want to know do they still count in the United States. Frederick Douglass delivered a wonderful heartfelt speech in Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852 on what the meaning of […]
Read more "THE CONSTITUTION IS STILL NOT KIND TO AFRICAN AMERICANS"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter Currently, America is watching March Madness (the NCAA Tournament), but there has been a 40-year problem that will not go away. By the end of the second round, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been on the outside looking in. Some Black schools have to qualify twice, even […]
Read more "IT MAY BE TIME"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter This weekend, America celebrated the birthday of Black Civil Rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. America continues to celebrate the struggles of African Americans on January 17, 2022. The NFL might have been left in a time warp with the events on the field and in the front […]
Read more "BLACK MONDAY: THE NFL COACHING CAROUSEL"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter The world is currently witnessing another great historical sports accomplishment. We have the GOAT (Greatest of All Time) of football, Jim Brown, we have the GOAT of basketball, Bill Russell, the GOAT of soccer, Pele, the GOAT of hockey, Wayne Gretzky, and the GOAT of baseball, Henry Aaron. Now […]
Read more "FORMULA ONE: A 2022 RESTART"By Gary Norris Gray-Staff Reporter It would be nice if any network football broadcaster would announce that the starting quarterbacks for the New York Football Giants and the Las Vegas Raiders are Michael Louis Ingram, Anthony McClean, or Gary Norris Gray without the reference to the color of their skin. Unfortunately we are not there […]
Read more "THE NFL QUARTERBACK QUESTION-AGAIN"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter The International Olympic committee seems to be having it out for Black women around the world in 2021 and the evidence continues to mount with the passing weeks. One after another are getting disqualified for the 2020 Summer Games. Black Athletes around the world should be uniting together toward […]
Read more "CALL IT WHAT IT IS"The National Basketball Association (NBA) enters this year’s conference finals with three African American head coaches leading their teams to a possible championship. At the same time younger Black assistant coaches are being by passed consistently.
Read more "The 2021 NBA Coaching Carousel"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter Major League Baseball just can’t get this right from the 1919 Chicago White Sox World Series scandal to New York Yankee pitcher Gerrit Cole putting a foreign substance on the baseball on the mound, cheating has always been a part of this game. To add insult to injury they […]
Read more "BASEBALL CHEATING AGAIN"
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