Good Black Information: The Day by day Drop by Lori Lakin HutchersonMight 09 2022
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Hey, that is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, right here to share with you a each day drop of Good Black Information for Monday, Might ninth, 2022, based mostly on the “A 12 months of Good Black Information Web page-A-Day Calendar” revealed by Workman Publishing.
Jockey Oliver Lewis received the inaugural Kentucky Derby atop the colt Aristides on Might 17, 1875. Certainly one of 13 Black jockeys within the fifteen-strong subject, Lewis set an American document along with his time of two minutes, 37.75 seconds over the mile and a half distance. (For the document, the Kentucky Derby turned a 1.25 mile race in 1896). Though Blacks dominated horseracing within the late 1800s, profitable fifteen of the primary twenty-eight Kentucky Derbies, by the early 1900s, they’d been pushed out of the game, which additionally had grow to be much less acces
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