Andrea Williams

My latest, on the evolution of Black NFL quarterbacks, and Jalen Hurts: tennessean.com/story/opinion/…

This man talked about racism in medicine on the Kelly Clarkson Show and help change thousands of people's lives

@28andJefferson !!!

TSU fans; we need to show up in Gentry next season

a few years ago Jerry Manuel (former Mets, White Sox manager) had a similar idea. He wanted Black Americans to have its own international baseball team, like Puerto Rico, as a way of showing the distinctiveness of Black baseball

@BWDBWDBWD I thought about this piece during the entire WBC

60 years ago today Texas Western won the national title in a groundbreaking game. Don Haskins’ Miners were the first team to start five African American players, busting the color barrier among southern schools.

One of Howard’s assistant coaches met head coach Kenneth Blakeney while writing a story about the Bison as a Sports Reporter for the @WashingtonPost and knew so much ball that Howard hired him. @Raggs_No_Riches

WNBA players felt they weren’t getting what they deserved. They came together, held their ground and look what happened. Gee, I wonder if … nah, forget it.

SWAC and MEAC conferences both secure a minimum of $4 million dollars from NCAA @MarchMadnessMBB with Howard beating UMBC and PVAMU beating Lehigh.

Two HBCUs placed in the First Four, per usual by the NCAA, and Howard and Prairie View A&M still advance.

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M WINS ITS FIRST NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME IN SCHOOL HISTORY 😤 The Panthers will move on to play Florida in the first round 🍿 (via @PVAMU_MBB)

Extremely grateful for this group and many others for their dedication, passion, and countless hours of collaboration. A lot goes on behind the scenes, and all the hard work of this team has culminated in a historic day for women's sports. 🧡

"When the Homestead Grays catcher suffered a hand injury during a game, Mgr. Judy Johnson, who knew of Josh Gibson's reputation as a terrific semipro player, went into the stands looking for the 18-year-old. "I asked him if he wanted to catch and he said 'yes, sir,' so we had to hold up the game while he went and put on Buck Ewing's uniform. We signed him the next day." Judy Johnson. "One of the things that was disappointing and disheartening to a lot of the black players at the time was that Jackie Robinson was not the best player. The best was Josh Gibson. I think that's one of the reasons why Josh died so early, because he was heartbroken." Larry Doby. "Gibson was built like sheet metal. If you ran into him, it was like you ran into a wall." Teammate "Hooks Tinker, last surviving Gray`s player, who passed away in 2000. Josh Gibson's death did not go unnoticed in the white press, "The Associated Press" characterizing him as "One of the greatest distance hitters in the history of baseball" for blasts that went out of the park at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.

Guy rules. March rules.

Details of a landmark WNBA collective bargaining agreement, per ESPN sources: - New salary cap starting at $7 million, up from $1.5 million - Average revenue share of nearly 20% across deal - Supermax starting at $1.4M - Average salary in range of $600K, minimum above $300K

Howard win it's first ever NCAA Tournament game

#Sinners DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw just made #Oscars history. She is the first woman to ever win the Academy Award for best cinematography. variety.com/2026/artisans/…

Per ESPN, Duke is the first school to win the ACC football, men’s & women’s basketball championships in the same school year. Leadership matters. Here’s the woman behind it all. Duke AD Nina King.

If your friends aren’t talking about: - Dominican dugout dances - Swagless Americans - Espresso cellys - Baseball players kissing - Canadian pitchers nicknamed Tugboat - Shohei Ohtani - Austin Wells speaking a little Español It’s time to get new friends.

We expect a lot of intellectual labor for free and without acknowledgement. No, it’s not backbreaking manual labor, but in a society in which knowledge work is increasingly being outsourced to AI, we need to recognize that this is cognitively taxing, painstaking work that matters. Treat it as such.

"Black women were distinctly aware of their location in the plantation economy. And with this awareness, they often deployed surreptitious methods to affirm their reproductive autonomy and resist the dominance of their enslavers and the doctors who stood to profit through the harm infected on Black women's bodies." scalawagmagazine.org/2025/02/reprod… | @scalawagmag