Philadelphia Museum Hosts Free Celebration of Negro League History on July 11
On Saturday, July 11, Philadelphia’s African American Museum will open its doors at 701 Arch Street for a free, family...
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Umbro: From Pub-Backed Beginnings to Global Sports-Fashion Powerhouse
In the early 1920s, Harold and Wallace Humphrey began selling sportswear from the back of their mother’s pub in Mobber...
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Debunked: Myth That Escaped Slaves Invented Ice Hockey Is False, but Black Canadians Made Key Contributions
In 2026 a viral claim asserted that escaped Black American slaves who fled to Canada invented ice hockey. Historians and...
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