Tag: Integration

  • Four Facts About San Diego’s Black Baseball Pioneer

    Four Facts About San Diego’s Black Baseball Pioneer

    (From left) Luke Easter, Artie Wilson and Johnny Ritchey integrated the minor-league San Diego Padres / Photo courtesy of collection of William Swank Professional baseball banned black players from America’s pastime until Jackie Robinson broke the “color line” in 1947. That same year, a local black player named Johnny Ritchey made another kind of history…

  • GAO: Leadership Needed To Help Immigrants Integrate

    By Jill Replogle A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found efforts to integrate immigrants into this country lacked coordination and direction from the federal government. The GAO interviewed leaders promoting citizenship awareness and civic integration across the country. They found a unanimous call for a national immigrant integration strategy, or, at least, federal coordination of integration efforts.…