Lifelong Inland Empire resident Al Jury was a local legend. Throughout his celebrated life, Jury influenced thousands of individuals and mentored hundreds of youth. If you played youth sports in the area between 1960’s and 1990’s you more than likely crossed paths with Al Jury at some point.  The Inland Empire will mourn the loss ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Nat’l Correspondent Bianca Smith, an African American woman, has made baseball history. Smith, who most recently served as an assistant baseball coach and hitting coordinator at Wisconsin’s Carroll University, was named a coach in the Boston Red Sox minor league system. Smith, 29, becomes the first Black woman ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Frank Robinson, a trailblazing figure who was Major League Baseball’s first African American manager and one of its greatest players during a career that spanned 21 seasons, died last Thursday after a prolonged illness. Robinson was 83. The Hall of Famer hit 586 home runs and appeared in 14 ...