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In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family in Coronado, California, found themselves unable to rent a house amid racially restrictive housing laws that favored white buyers and renters. Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple in town, allowed the family to rent and eventually buy their Coronado property when nobody else would. Now, to thank the Thompsons for helping them get a toehold in American society, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students using… Source link

Your definition of fantasy baseball sleeper might vary, but the following list contains undervalued players when compared to ADP. Holliday was the No. 1 pick in the 2022 draft and is coming off a strong season across the minors. He posted a .396 OBP with impressive plate discipline as a 19-year-old in Triple-A, and projection systems call for the rookie to be an above-average hitter right away. Holliday has 15/15 potential yet is available 200+ picks into Yahoo drafts. Crawford posted a 3.96… Source link

Russia’s imprisoning of US citizens as bargaining chips is “nothing new,” an ex-KGB agent said. Jack Barsky told Fox that this gives Moscow an “asset that you can trade.” Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian ballerina, is the latest American citizen to be detained by Russia. Every US citizen detained by Russia gives the Kremlin an “asset that you can trade,” ex-KGB agent Jack Barsky said. Barsky, a former sleeper agent for Soviet intelligence in the 1970s and 1980s, told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Biden touts “Buy American” plan during State of the Union  Yahoo News Source link

Rob, a member of the Mozart group, leads a military training of Ukrainian soldiers in rural Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, on July 23, 2022. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times) KYIV, Ukraine — Andrew Milburn, a former American Marine colonel and leader of the Mozart Group, stood in a chilly meeting room on the second floor of an apartment building in Kyiv about to deliver some bad news. In front of him sat half a dozen men who had traveled to Ukraine on their own dime to work for him. “Guys,… Source link

WASHINGTON — Florida’s ban on teaching an advanced placement course on African American history is “incomprehensible,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday, in the latest dispute between the Biden administration and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely presidential nominee who has energized conservatives with his eagerness to engage in the culture wars. Jean-Pierre’s statement comes a day after the public release of a letter Florida’s education department… Source link

The American Express La Quinta, CaliforniaPGA West (Stadium Course) – Par 72 – 7,187 yardsPGA West (Nicklaus Tournament Course) – Par 72 – 7,147 yardsLa Quinta Country Club – Par 72 – 7,060 yardsField – 156 entrantsPurse – $8M The Preview The Hawaiian Swing culminated this past weekend with Si Woo Kim chipping in for birdie on Waialae’s par-3 17th before adding another tweeter on his 72nd hole of the tournament to ultimately outlast Hayden Buckley by one at the Sony Open. Traveling back to the… Source link

On April 3, 2004, the center of the American sports world was San Antonio, Texas, where Duke and Connecticut were about to play in the Final Four. Grant Wahl was there, working as a national college basketball writer for Sports Illustrated. Yet a game between two historic teams, featuring legendary coaches and future NBA players, didn’t excite him too much. He kept saying he wished he was covering the then-fledgling Major League Soccer, where a 14-year-old named Freddie Adu was about to… Source link

AL-RAYYAN, Qatar — Two American journalists have been told to remove rainbow-patterned articles of clothing by authorities at World Cup venues in Qatar in recent days. On Saturday, Los Angeles Times reporter Kevin Baxter was told by a police officer at the U.S. men’s national team’s Qatari training site that a rainbow-colored mask was not allowed. Two days later, at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, where the USMNT plays Wales on Monday night, longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl said that he… Source link

The illustration by Marlena Myles is featured as the Google doodle to celebrate Indigenous North American stickball. Google hide caption toggle caption Google … Source link