Internal NHL demographic data shows what a lot of people anecdotally know: the NHL is very white. On the ice, more than 90% ...

A commemorative game will be played Monday in Ottawa honoring the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes' inaugural year of 1895.

Note: This story was published in October 2020 and is being republished with minor updates for Black History Month.Willie ...

(Tin House Books, N. Affonso) Childhood friends Gertie ... She was a finalist for the NHL's Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award in 2021. Her work has been featured in Black Nerd Problems, Spectrum ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins honored the legacy of the organization’s Black players and veteran Black hockey player Willie O’Ree with a portrait by Pittsburgh visual artist Ashanté Josey after the ...

The commemoration of African Heritage Month can be traced back to 1926 when Harvard-educated Black historian, Carter G. Woodson, founded Negro History Week to recognize the achievements of African ...

The Academy Award-nominated actor is under fire for a series of tweets that resurfaced Thursday, expressing her views on topics such as race and religion. Read our review of The Brutalist, which ...

Willie O'Ree breaks the color barrier in the National Hockey League in 1958. O'Ree was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on October 15, 1935. O'Ree's grandparents escaped slavery in the United ...

It’s been 67 years since Willie O’Ree became the first black player in the NHL when he made his debut with the Boston Bruins on Jan. 18, 1958. View the original article to see embedded media.

Who Was He? On Jan. 18, 1958, Willie O’Ree took the ice for the Bruins against the Montreal Canadians. Although his NHL career was brief (he played in two games for the Bruins in 1957-58 and 43 ...

The German Empire was established on this day in 1871. Here is a quiz on that, and other events that happened on January 18 Published - January 18, 2024 05:00 pm IST ...

The story of African-Americans in sports is tightly related to the rise and continued fight for the culture in society at large. It is an effort that accounts not only for on-field excellence but ...