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MLB Retrospectively Elevates Negro Leagues to Major League Status

The move grants recognition to some of baseball’s pioneers from 1920 to 1948 and immediately rewrites the game’s record books

By Jared Diamond
Dec. 16, 2020 12:44 pm ET

Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history” by elevating the Negro Leagues from 1920 through 1948 to major-league status, a move that recognizes the sport’s long-excluded Black pioneers and immediately rewrites baseball’s record books.

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Cape Gazette
December 2, 2020

In the wake of the hate crime against Lewes leaders of the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice, the Nov. 21 Hate Has No Home Here webinar was an inspiring event that enjoined to people work proactively to dispel the ignorance and fear that drive acts of racism and homophobia.

The SDARJ Youth Education Group has been working to educate local high school students. Its team members have put together four 90-minute, interactive Zoom workshops to be offered in the spring on these topics: Cultural Competence, Antiracism, History of Slavery in Delaware, and Great Contributions to the American Fabric by African Americans.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Charlotte King and Aimee Wiest

December 3, 2020 

Dear community of friends and supporters of a United America:

Sometime after the election Nov. 3, some hateful, malcontent vandalized the property of Dr. Aimee Wiest and myself by burning the word “Trump” in very large letters in our front yard.  This misled, willfully ignorant person chose to dismiss our First Amendment rights and punish us for not sharing his/her divisive beliefs. The person mistakenly believed that it was his/her right or obligation to punish those who exercised a judgment that disagreed with his/hers.

Despite this heinous hate crime, which has been described by the investigating officer as a “criminal mischief action,” we have been uplifted by the tremendous support from so many persons.  Some individuals, such as Mayor Ted Becker of Lewes and Sen. Ernie Lopez, visited us at our home to express their condemnation of such useless behavior and to offer support. We thank Sen. Lopez for arranging to have the lawn repaired.  We are grateful to Mr. Mike Rawl of the Greater Lewes Foundation who tracked us down (through St. Peter’s Church in Lewes), who also offered to have the front lawn repaired. A special thanks to Mr. Rawl for the additional contribution of printed signs that were used in the silent vigil, and will be displayed by various businesses.

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Hate Has No Home Here webinar brings community together
Rally in Lewes held the next day

Nearly 50 people gathered along Savannah Road in Lewes for a Hate Has No Home Here rally in response to recent racial and homophobic attacks in the Cape Region. RON MACARTHUR
November 24, 2020

Following three separate acts of hate toward members of the Cape community, individuals and groups rallied together to say “Hate Has No Home Here.

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In this third of three videos produced by ACLU of Delaware, community leaders discuss the importance of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In this second of three videos produced by ACLU of Delaware, community leaders discuss the importance of the Fourth Amendment.