Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the

The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black

Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism Na

The noted cultural critic Gerald Early explores the intersection of race and sports, and our deeper, often contradictory attitudes toward the athletes we glorif

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of f