Having been a sportswriter my entire professional career, I have had a ringside seat to watch African American athletes be treated as nothing more than “entertainers” for rich professional sports owners or mega-bucks college athletic programs. It was only a matter of...
It has been almost two months since the wreckage of slave ship Clotilda was found buried in murky waters north of Mobile Bay. And since then, the one burning question constantly posed to we descendants of those 110 Africans aboard that last – and illegal...
Of all the things special about being a direct descendant of Africans who were aboard slave ship Clotilda, recently found lying under 20-feet of water in Mobile Bay, finding out what really happened to the 158-year-old relic might be the most exciting. From the...
