But baseball was every inch black America's game. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle For African-American kids, playing for the Yankees or Giants or Cardinals was no more than ...

If you go to high school games or Little Leagues in our state, you will see that African-Americans in our state are also no longer playing baseball. There may be several reasons for that.

Critics quickly pounced on the watermelon aspect of the cartoon, arguing the cartoonist was playing off a stereotype that African Americans are ... because he found “kids Colgate watermelon ...

Yet while there were a good amount of cartoons from the '70s, '80s, '90s and early 2000s that featured African American characters ... went wrong because of three kids who wanted to make their ...