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Jun 11, 2018
These women were the toughest performers in the Wild West
Don’t try horse diving at home
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Jun 7, 2018
This woman shattered the gender barrier in pro baseball
When Toni Stone joined the Negro League, she became the first woman regular on a big-league team
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May 8, 2018
Born into slavery, this man won the Kentucky Derby three times and became the richest American athlete
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May 3, 2018
This athlete conquered poverty, racism, and polio in order to became an Olympian
Wilma Rudolph went on
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Nina Renata Aron
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Apr 27, 2018
Muhammad Ali wouldn’t go to war for a country that didn’t value black lives
With this act of defiance…
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Laura Smith
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Mar 22, 2018
The entire English soccer team gave the Nazi salute — for diplomacy’s sake
It was part of the British…
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Shoshi Parks
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Mar 1, 2018
Scientists staged a racist Olympics in 1904 to “prove” white superiority
But the participants of these…
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Feb 8, 2018
Boxer Emile Griffith took on a homophobic opponent in the ring, and killed him
The death of Benny Paret haunted Griffith for the rest of his life
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Laura Smith
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Jan 28, 2018
A homophobic slur before the fight, a barrage of death blows in the ring
Did Emile Griffith’s outrage…
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Jan 16, 2018
Watch: Althea Gibson was the first black player to compete at Wimbledon
More than 40 years before the Williams sisters dominated women’s tennis, Althea Gibson broke the sport’s racial barriers
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