From there, the Royal Giants criss-crossed the upper eastern seaboard, taking on a variety of clubs — white, black, minor-league, barnstorming, semi-pro, amateur, even college teams like Howard ...

Segregation didn’t quite prevent contact between Black and white players. ... It was also home to the Eastern Colored League’s Brooklyn Royal Giants in the 1920s.

The Royal Giants had already played promiscuously in that month of October 1921, competing against Black clubs and the white semi-pro teams around town: at Astoria’s Recreation Field (Steinway ...

(AP) NEW YORK - The Brooklyn Nets are open for business. The team's formal attire will be black and white. The Nets began settling into their new neighborhood Monday, unveiling new colors and ...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Artworks collected by Alicia Keys and her husband Swizz Beatz will be on display at the Brooklyn Museum in a new show called "Giants." The two titans of the ...

Two teens were arrested after a Black teenager was assaulted at a Brooklyn subway station by a group of white attackers who peppered him with racial slurs — with one suspect throwing a banana at ...

Tiffany Traille, Janine Eell and Whitney McGuire at “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” held at the Brooklyn Museum on February 6, 2024 in New York, New York.

Brooklyn will get a giant Black Lives Matter mural similar to the one painted in yellow in downtown Washington, DC. Artists, elected officials and others joined in painting the words along Fulton S… ...

New MIA exhibit features nearly 100 pieces by Black artists 03:32. Art pieces owned by Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys are now on display at "Giants," a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.