The first St. John’s Black player and a fateful trip to Kentucky

On the eve of St. John’s and Kentucky, more than seven decades after Solly Walker, a tall child’s circumstance, his ...

Former NC Gov. Jim Hunt, a longtime, dominant figure in state politics, has died

James B. Hunt Jr., a one-time Wilson County farm boy who rose to become one of the dominant figures in 20th-century North ...
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History Still Teaches Us to Hope

About 20 years ago, I received an email from a young man congratulating me on my good fortune in being hate-listed by the ...
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What happened to football on Christmas Day? The lost history of a Victorian tradition

In 1909, a Christmas Day match between Partick Thistle and Hibernian ended in tragedy when Hibs and Scotland defender James Main suffered a fatal injury. Partick’s Firhill pitch was covered in ice, ...