Mickey Gallagher
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mickey Gallagher
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Sports
Mr. Smith-Pelly won’t go to Washington
June 18, 2018The Washington Capitals, after 13 years of playoff failure, finally won their first Stanley Cup.
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Connie Hawkins: Michael before Michael
May 21, 2018One of the greatest players of all time, Connie Hawkins's experience mirrored that of many black athletes whose dreams have been crushed by a racist society.
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The First Lady of baseball
May 8, 2018There is only one tombstone engraved: "She Loved Baseball." A fitting tribute to the memory of Effa Manley, the only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Culture
The dark truths about child labor in books for children
April 24, 2018With International Workers' Day upon us, let's not forget those who gave up what should have been the best times of their lives to the rapacious capitalist system - children.
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Sports
Baseball’s Larry Doby: #2 but first-class all the way home
April 17, 2018Ask even the most casual baseball fan who the first African American to play in the major leagues was and they'll say "Jackie Robinson." Ask them who the second was and you'll probably get a blank...
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Culture
Children’s book ideas for rewarding holiday gifts
December 1, 2017Stumped for a holiday present for a child? Why not a book? Unlike toys, books are gifts that stay with kids long after they have finished reading them.
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Arts
“All of life”: Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary
September 10, 2013Dalton has long been recognized as one of the finest poets of the 20th century in Latin America..But Dalton was not just a poet: he was a revolutionary poet.
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