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Sunday, July 22, 2018

When Great Performances Hurt HBCUs

An excerpt from the Undefeated -

When Morgan State beat Grambling at Yankee Stadium, more than the score was at stake
That 1968 day changed the game for HBCU football
BY LONNAE O'NEAL

Five months after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a football game between two historically black colleges opened another field of play in the civil rights movement.

The Sept. 28 battle between what were then Louisiana’s Grambling College Tigers and Baltimore’s undefeated Morgan State Bears at Yankee Stadium marked the first time two historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs) had played in New York City.

The game was a cultural high-water mark and a commercial success, and it brought dozens of players to the attention of an NFL that had only recently merged with the upstart AFL and was thirsty for black talent. But it also set loose a cascade of events that grievously hurt the caliber of football at historically black schools.

https://theundefeated.com/features/when-morgan-state-beat-grambling-at-yankee-stadium-more-than-the-score-was-at-stake/

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Saturday, July 21, 2018

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The Great Debaters 2018

From the Huffington Post -

Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3

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Powerful Indeed

Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. This is a powerful read: pic.twitter.com/PrUBHrXDYo
— Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) July 19, 2018

Missing Mr. O

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot

How I miss Barack Obama.

And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.

Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d