Atlanta

Atlanta:The show that has no problem showing the issues in the world Atlanta is a comedy created by Donald Glover showing the struggles of young African American men in Atlanta. In this show, Glover touches on issues of racism, police brutality, Black on Black violence, and the HIV epidemic in Atlanta. This show’s release is coming out in a time where America is beginning to have a resurgence of racial tension. The show is mainly focused around the two cousins Earnest and Alfred “Paper Boy”.…

playoffs. Kevin Garnett received NBA Defensive Player of the Year award and Danny Ainge also received an award as the NBA Executive of the Year for executing the most dramatic NBA turnaround in league history. In the playoffs the Celtics met the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Detroit Pistons beating each team to make it to the championship game where they would play the Los Angeles Lakers for their eleventh meeting in a playoff game. The Celtics would end up taking the…

George Herman Ruth Jr. was Babe Ruth and he was a professional baseball player. George Herman Ruth Jr. was one of the best baseball players ever to live. He made every baseball fan remember him. He set a lot of records in his life and had a weird childhood and grew up to be a great guy. George had a very weird and poor life, but he made it great at the end. George was born on February 6, 1895 in Pigtown Baltimore. George was raised in a poor neighborhood with his mother Kate Schamberger and…

Ruth had shown up in Boston on July 11, 1914 along with a few other players from the Orioles Egan and Shore. That morning Ruth went to Launders coffee shop and met a 16 year old waitress named Hellen Woodford who would soon become Ruth’s first wife. That afternoon Ruth won his first game he played against the Cleveland Naps were he scored 4-3. He also pitched to the catcher Bill Carrigan who was also the Red Sox manager. Ruth lost his second game and as a batter for the first time in the major…

Jackie Robinson, a true hero once said, “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” A hero is a person that one may look up to and admire because of the things they have done in their life. Jackie Robinson, who was born in a cabin to a family of sharecroppers and as a grandson of a slave is one of the most important people in baseball history. He was the man who was fearless and broke the color barrier on April 15 of 1947. Knowing the hate that would come from all of…

He ran. Arrows, spears, and bullets whistled by his body, missing him by inches. John knew he had to find his partner Reginald and the caravan with the rest of the traders. He turned his head and saw that the natives were gaining on him. Quickly, John pulled out his gun, a silver barreled Colt Peacemaker that had a chamber full of .44 caliber bullets. He fired once bringing down one of the four braves. The rest scattered, possibly to regroup and return with more friends. John strode over to…

Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903. He played for the New York Yankees from 1923-1939 until a big moment changed his entire life. Baseball changed his life Lou Gehrig was born in the Bronx in New York. His full name was Henry Louis “Lou” or “Buster” Gehrig. When he was young, his two sisters died of whooping cough and his brother died at infancy. He was an only child so he helped his mother with choices. In 1923, Lou Gehrig signed a contract with the New York Yankees on April 30…

Hiram “Hank” Williams was born on September 17th, 1923, and by the year 1937 Hank had begun his career as one of the early pioneers of blues and country music. Hank was born in a small town in Alabama called, Mt. Olive. Hank was the third child of his family. His dad, Elonzo “Lon” Williams, worked on railroads for a lumber company during the first seven years of Hanks life until his father started having health issues. Elonzo fought for two years in World War 1 and years later he started…

The notebook shows that Rose, the Red’ player-manager in 1986, bet on baseball repeatedly between March and July of that year. There is no evidence he bet against the Reds.” (Foundation) Some more evidence has also been found nevertheless. Records now are also showing that Pete Rose also gambled on the team he played for and managed. Not only did he gamble upon his team, he also gambled on games that he played in during his career as a Cincinnati Red. This article states that proof was found;…

'The idea is to produce things that are as strange and mysterious to you as the first music you ever heard.' Brian Eno Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Eno or, as more commonly known to the world, just Brian Eno, can be unbiasedly described as an iconic contemporary British artist. He began his music career with guitarist Anthony Grafton in 1968 in Maxwell Demon, and was influenced by such bands as The Velvet Underground (Independent.co.uk, 1998) his real legacy began in 1971, as a…