Tag Archives: Newark
Segregating Baseball: Little Giants and White Stockings
The 1887 exhibition game that defined race relations in baseball. Continue reading
One and Done: The Newark Peppers
A relocated team in an outlaw league playing in a city never considered major league. Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, History, Sports
Tagged baseball, Bill McKechnie, Edd Roush, Federal League, Harrison Park, Harry Sinclair, MLB, New Jersey, Newark, Newark Peppers, Rupert Mills
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Homies with Grammys
From the Grammy Museum Experience in Newark. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Count Basie, Dionne Warwick, Frank Sinatra, Grammy Museum Experience, Grammys, jazz, museum, museums, music, New Jersey, Newark
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Headless Art and Scary Stuff from Asia
A walk through the Newark Museum Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged art, Asian art, museums, New Jersey, Newark, Newark Museum, sculpture, travel
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On the 50th Anniversary of a Summer of Urban Warfare in America
Are we really better off now than we were 50 years ago? Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 1967, cities, Detroit, film, Michigna, movie reviews, New Jersey, Newark, racism, Revolution '67, urban affairs, urban riots
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African Art
From the collection of the Newark Museu;m Continue reading
Posted in Art, Uncategorized
Tagged African art, art, headdresses, Newark, Newark Museum, Nigeria
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More Pictures of (and facts about) Newark
NJPAC, Ironbound and the Robert Treat Continue reading
More Pictures of Newark
Some music, sport and finance. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cities, New Jersey, Newark, Photography, Prudential, Prudential Center
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Pictures of Newark
And some surprising facts about the Brick City Continue reading
