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Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book

December 18, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.

Soccer league players announce partnership with Communications Workers of America

December 11, 2020 By Special to People’s World

The USLPA and the CWA, a labor union representing hundreds of thousands of working people across many different sectors, have signed a partnership agreement to build solidarity, increase collaboration, and provide collective support.

In Paris, soccer players lay down ‘marker’ in fight against racism

December 10, 2020 By Rob Harris

Players have taken a knee, unfurled slogans and demanded tougher action only to find soccer — their working environment — remains infected with racism.

Equal pay for equal work? Not yet for U.S. women’s soccer team

December 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The U.S. women are international soccer’s version of the New York Yankees. The men rarely even make it to the World Cup quarterfinals.

Fenway Park expected to be used as voting venue

September 23, 2020 By Associated Press

Election officials in Boston are expected to approve Fenway Park as an early voting venue when they meet Thursday.