The sixth annual Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of California Walk-a-Thon will be held this Saturday at Los Angeles Southwest College
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Women’s History Month:
Maggie Hathaway’s touched many lives in the Black community of Los Angeles through her involvement in sports and entertainment, and her name has had a lasting memory in this city.
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Black women have long history in professional baseball
Before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947, there had not been a Black player in Major League Baseball since the 1890s. Black baseball players migrated to the Negro Leagues, and they were
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Third annual Los Angeles Student Athlete Symposium
Obtaining athletic scholarships to compete in college sports is not as simple as showing up at the local high school and developing into a great player. There are a number of moving parts that allow a young
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Student Athlete of the Week
Jermaine Camacho-Small is a lean 6’7” center on Hamilton High School’s basketball team. With that type of heighth, he has a great opportunity to play college basketball next year, and possibly follow in his father’s footsteps by playing professional basketball.
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Women’s history month
Title IX brought equality to high school and college sports, when it was introduced in 1972. The legislation gave equal funding to men’s and women’s sports, leveling the playing field. Before Title IX there were
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Black ice hockey players helped revolutionize the game
Out of the four major professional sports in the United States (football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey), ice hockey has been the Whitest. Nearly all of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) players are
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Fraternity, sorority host annual Christmas party for families affected by Sickle Cell
One in every 400 African Americans has sickle cell anemia, but raising awareness about the disease
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L.A. Times hit with backlash over Serena Williams poll
A poll headline that appeared on the Los Angeles Times’
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Bryant embarks on farewell season
Basketball is unlike football or baseball, where various units make up the whole.