Column by Mark McFarland, Assistant Sports Editor On April 15, 1947, sports in the United States changed forever. It was the first MLB game that an African-American played in and his name was Jackie Robinson. As Black History Month has come and almost gone, it is only fitting to take a look back at what the Read More
Story by Lauren Epperson, Staff writer In celebration of the 60th anniversary of desegregation at Murray State, three retired African-American Murray State professors will speak at 5 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Reflections from the Past event, to be held in the Curris Center. “As millennials, we owe it to our predecessors to reflect, think critically, and Read More
In the spring of 1955 hundreds of people chanting and yelling racial slurs stormed the gates of other universities across the South in protest of the Supreme Court’s order to the lower federal courts to require desegregation as quickly as possible. The order came as a result of Brown v. Board of Education, in which Read More
