This is like thinking out loud in a crowded room
There were eighteen African-American athletes on the U.S. Team in the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. They won 14 medals — eight of them gold: a quarter of the 56 medals won by the entire U.S. team. Most of them have been all but forgotten.
“It was easier to tell the story of one African-American Continue reading “The Black Eagles”
Shortly after midnight on this day in 1961, East German soldiers begin laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city.
Perhaps Donald Trump should ask the Russians how that “Build a Wall” thing worked out?
