Category: Uncategorized

By: Greg Ruppert Roberto Clemente was a talented man on the baseball diamond but a better man off of it. Clemente’s baseball career flourished in the predominantly white league that is Major League Baseball. Clemente played 17 years as a Pittsburgh Pirate and was around during the worst parts of state-sanctioned segregation in U.S. history. For example, America was in the middle of Jim Crow segregation, which divided people into “colored” and white. In the 1940s to 1960s, Major League Baseball (MLB) had a inconsistent stance on Latinos players. As Adrian Burgos has shown, MLB leaders tied to Jim Crow were befuddled over the racial ambiguity of Latino players. He writes, “Those disturbed by the blurred line of exclusion called for renewed policing of the in-between space along the color…

Harry Walker Protesters Hold Crosses Bearing the Names of Victims—Including That of João Pedro, 14, Who Was Killed at Home by Police in May—in the Streets of São Gonçalo, Brazil, on June 5. In São Paulo, Brazil, three mothers, Dona Cecilia, Dona Maria, and Dona Cidinha, have started a new life. For Dona Cecilia, her new life consists of uncovering what happened to her son, who disappeared and was later found stabbed to death and wrapped in newspaper. For Dona Maria, time was spent trying to gain custody of the body of her twenty-two-year-old son, Betinho, who was murdered by a police-linked death squad. Finally, Dona Cidinha's days will play out fighting for justice and equality, after her son was choked to death by four police officers in front of…