If the jokes about Bill Clinton being the nation’s first “black” president were not weird enough for you, get a load of this: In his new role as a sports columnist for Gotham, a slick new ...

Suspicions that Babe Ruth was a person of color ... Regardless of whether Ruth has a black ancestor or not, he identified as a white man and benefited from its privilege throughout his life ...

Despite George Herman “Babe ... that he was black, how was Ruth to come up with hard evidence that he wasn’t? You can’t prove a negative, as the old saying goes. Ruth was white enough ...

the real Babe Ruth? No contest. During one trip to Kansas City in 1927, Ruth and Lou Gehrig visited three orphanages (two white, one black), two newspapers and Mercy Hospital, for white people ...

In April 1947, the most famous and, arguably, most beloved ballplayer of all-time was honored at Yankee Stadium on “Babe ... Ruth “work so much better in color than they would in black and white.

Babe Ruth, the Yankees icon who passed away in ... Everyone was equal in Babe’s eyes — rich or poor, white or black. Living in a time when segregation was a normal course of life, he called ...