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Indianapolis Star
28-04-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
'He's a winner.' Attucks' Mr. Basketball finalist Dezmon Briscoe makes college choice
Dezmon Briscoe is leaded to Kent State. Briscoe, the 6-9 Crispus Attucks star and IndyStar Mr. Basketball finalist, was previously committed to Iowa before former coach Fran McCaffery was let go. Briscoe took official visits to Kent State and College of Charleston earlier this month. Briscoe averaged 15.8 points, 9.4 rebounds and 5.1 blocked shots in 19 games as a senior for Crispus Attucks after returning from an ankle injury. He helped the Tigers to a 22-7 record and Class 3A state finals appearance. The two-time City Player of the Year finished fourth on Attucks' all-time scoring list with 1,181 points and had 953 rebounds, 375 blocked shots, 158 assists and 61 steals over his four-year career with the Tigers. Briscoe led Attucks to two City tournament championships. 'Dezmon has had considerable growth this year,' Attucks coach Chris Hawkins said. 'He missed double-digit games but became a coach on the bench in order to help us get through those games. His passing, shooting, defense and talking gave us a big lift in the second half of the season and throughout the state tournament. He's a winner and does it the right way and has been a great ambassador for our school and program. It will be hard to replace him.' Kent State, coached by one-time Indiana assistant Rob Senderoff, is coming off a 24-12 season and National Invitational Tournament semifinal appearance. The Flashes made NCAA tournament appearances under Senderoff in 2017 and 2023.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
On This Day, March 5: Winston Churchill gives 'Iron Curtain' speech
March 5 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1770, British troops killed five colonials in the so-called Boston Massacre, one of the events that led to the American Revolution. Crispus Attucks, who had escaped slavery, died in the incident and became hailed as the first martyr of the American cause. History buffs relived the event 232 years later with a re-enactment in downtown Boston. In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson was publicly inaugurated for his second term. He had a private, official inauguration a day earlier. In 1933, in German elections, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party won nearly half the seats in the Reichstag (the Parliament). In 1946, Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended across" Europe. In 1953, the Soviet Union announced that dictator Joseph Stalin had died at age 73. Stalin had been in a coma after having a massive stroke four days earlier. In 1963, Wham-O patented the Hula Hoop, which then became a fad across the country. The company's co-founders, Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin died in 2008 and 2002, respectively. In 1993, Canada's Ben Johnson, once called the world's fastest human, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and was banned for life from track competition. In 2011, archaeologists renovating the Rio de Janeiro harbor for the 2016 Olympics reported uncovering the remains of a 19th-century port where thousands of people arrived from Africa and were sold into slavery. In 2013, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died at age 58 and Vice President Nicolas Maduro ascended to the presidency. In 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with South Korean officials for the first time since becoming leader. The special envoys of South Korean President Moon Jae-in were on a mission to broker denuclearization talks between North Korea and the United States. In 2021, Pope Francis arrived in Iraq for the first-ever papal visit to the Middle Eastern nation. In 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the United States to stop buying Russian oil during a Zoom meeting with members of the U.S. Congress.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Whether Trump gets it or not, there's no American history without Black history
You can't erase Black History for the same reason you can't erase air; because air simply exists whether you want it to or not. It's not multiple choice. Stop breathing and you will find out. It's science, and it's also fact. These are two things the current occupant of the White House and his merry band of MAGA parrots cannot understand, and therefore cannot tolerate. It's a mentality that says, 'We don't get it, so we're not going to allow it.' Yeah. OK. Sure. Except that it's not up to you. Black History is American History, and it happened. President Donald Trump's executive orders have forced various federal agencies to curtail diversity programming, including observances of Black History Month. Any attempt to extricate black threads from the American tapestry will result in the entire fabric becoming undone. Just to make it plain; there is no American history without Black history. That's because there is a strong likelihood that America never would have evolved into the economic powerhouse that it became – and might not have evolved much at all – without Black Americans. As the kids used to say, not brag, just fact. We can begin with slavery, since that's where it began for enslaved people in America in 1619, when the first enslaved African set foot on these shores more than 100 years before this country became the United States of America in 1776. During those early years when America was a toddler, cotton was king. That's because the cotton industry was the nation's largest and most profitable export, creating the economic foundation upon which the United States became a world power. The free labor provided by those enslaved African people who picked that cotton was the reason why the cotton industry exploded like it did. Stealing African people from their homeland to work for free in the cotton fields for over 200 years was the only way the cotton industry in America could have become so profitable – and the only way America was able to become so dominant. Like I said; no Black history? No American history. But there's more. Actually, there's so much more that I don't have space to include it all, but I can give several relevant highlights. Like the fact that the first man to die in the American Revolution was a Black man named Crispus Attucks. From the National Park Service: 'Crispus Attucks, a sailor of mixed African and Indigenous ancestry, died in Boston on March 5, 1770, after British soldiers fired two musket balls into his chest. His death and that of four other men at the hands of the 29th Regiment became known as the Boston Massacre. Death instantly transformed Attucks from an anonymous sailor into a martyr for a burgeoning revolutionary cause.' Then there was Benjamin Banneker, who helped design not only the White House, but Washington D.C. From the Benjamin Banneker High School website: 'Banneker's major reputation stems from his service as a surveyor on the six-man team which helped design the blueprints for Washington, DC. President Washington had appointed Banneker, making him the first Black presidential appointee in the United States. Banneker helped in selecting the sites for the U.S. Capitol building, the U.S. Treasury building, the White House and other Federal buildings. When the chairman of the civil engineering team, Major L'Enfant, abruptly resigned and returned to France with the plans, Banneker's photographic memory enabled him to reproduce them in their entirety. Washington, DC, with its grand avenues and buildings, was completed and stands today as a monument to Banneker's genius.' Oh, and enslaved people played a major role in construction of the White House. And let's not even get started on the history of American popular music, nearly all of which originated with the blues, which was created by… Yep. Keith A. Owens is a local writer and co-founder of Detroit Stories Quarterly and the We Are Speaking Substack newsletter and podcast. Submit a letter to the editor at and we may publish it online and in print. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Trump doesn't get it. Black history is American history | Opinion
