http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/ Community News and Information Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:28:13 PST en-us http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/The_Integration_of_the_Black_QB.shtml BASN Focus On History My son was born a year after quarterback Steve McNair entered the NFL. And so he didn't know much about McNair's background, or the circumstances that resulted in his name being the third called on that draft day in 1995. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:27:00 PST http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/The_Integration_of_the_Black_QB.shtml http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/The_First_Super_Bowl.shtml BASN Focus On History If the NFL & AFL had decided to put on their Big Game one year earlier, would the TV Gods have bought it? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:37:00 PST http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/The_First_Super_Bowl.shtml http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/Black_Man_On_A_White_Field.shtml BASN Focus On History In addition to playing halfback and receiver for the University of Maryland, Darryl Hill, the first black football player in the Atlantic Coast Conference, kicked extra points and returned punts, so during warm-ups he took the field before the rest of the team. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:19:00 PST http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/Black_Man_On_A_White_Field.shtml http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/Paving_The_Way_For_The_Ladies.shtml BASN Focus On History In 1938, the Wake Robin Club pushed the process of desegregating the District of Columbia's public courses by drafting and sending a petition to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:17:00 PST http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/Paving_The_Way_For_The_Ladies.shtml http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/A_Wound_That_Never_Healed.shtml BASN Focus On History Paul Robeson became a hero to black Americans during the years before Joe Louis won the heavyweight crown and Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball. Lloyd L. Brown recalls, growing up as a child in Minnesota in the 1920s, how proudly people would speak the name of "Robeson of Rutgers." Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:27:00 PST http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/BASN_Focus_On_History_4/A_Wound_That_Never_Healed.shtml