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YouTube screenshot from Rocky (1976) Mickey Z. — Now With Purpose December 21, 2020 2020 is not done with us yet. We are divided and exhausted and focused on the present. Yet, we have to simultaneously summon the fortitude to embrace the recovery work that looms in 2021. Where will we find the inspiration to do our part in this long-overdue national healing? Probably the same place we always turn ...
Screenshot from eBay Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 1, 2020 Outside of hanging out with my friends, I never really liked school. Since I was able to do well without much effort, the situation ...
Josh Gibson scoring a run for the Homestead Grays in a game against the Newark Eagles at Griffith Stadium in Washington in 1942. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) Mickey Z. -- World News Tr ...
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 11, 2020 In 1937, baseball was a segregated, primarily Eastern sport… but in the off-season, major leaguers often competed against Negro Lea ...
Gangkhar Puensum seen from Gophu La Pass; it is Bhutan's highest mountain at an elevation of 7,570 m (24,836 ft) and most likely the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Image: Photo by Gradytheb ...
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust July 5, 2018 Being a horseracing aficionado, this writer knows that the title of this column -- The Sports of Kings -- has always pertained ...
Photo collage: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 15, 2018 “Gangly Harlem street urchin” Althea Gibson was one of the greatest and most important tennis players of all-time. Btw, she was b ...
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Muhammad Ali -- “The Greatest” -- was not only vastly overrated as a fighter but even more overrated as a rebel-activist-revolutionary-humanitarian. Mickey Z. -- World News Tr ...
Martina NavratilovaMickey Z. -- World News Trust May 21, 2017 I’ve sometimes gained personal training clients thanks to the ordinary act of correcting a stranger’s workout form. You see, to put it bl ...
Edited photo by Mickey Z. (Original photo by Mark Sandten/Bongarts/Getty Images) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 3, 2017 Not too long ago, while leaving the gym, I overheard a conversation about ...
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 1, 2016 A 28-year-old man, born of a single white 19-year-old woman (most likely Italian American) and an Afro-American father, had a ...