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Congratulations to Dawn Staley and the University of South Carolina women's basketball team for winning the NCAA Championship. South Carolina invested in their program and in Dawn and she delivered. Watching her navigate this space as a head coach is truly remarkable.

Chris Lamb​ - Author, 'Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War'
Explains how it came about to write the book. In July 1955 when the 11 and 12-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the Southern way of life. The Cannon Street team won two tournaments by forfeit. If they won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, they would have advanced to the Little League World Series. But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in the tournament because they had advanced by winning on forfeit and not on the field, denying the boys their dream of playing in the Little League World Series. It was a national story for a few weeks then faded away. During a reunion years later, the white players told the black players they wanted to play, but it was their fathers that were against it

Fr3deR1cK Taylor - College Baseball Turned Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker
An Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Fr3deR1cK's projects have led him to informal settlement villages in Nairobi, Kenya, Lusaka, Zambia and hospitals for the poor in Lima, Peru. Fr3deR1cK has documented kids in India and at-risk people in South Central Los Angeles. Fr3deR1cK’s adventure into content creation started with a film education at Temple University’s highly regarded documentary filmmaking program, where Fr3deR1cK played baseball for half of his college career. Explains the decision to give up baseball to focus on social justice, advocacy, and equality for all people. It's crazy to see how black athletes have made changes in sports throughout history. His civil rights documentary “Counter Histories: Rock Hill,” which is about the black college student group the Friendship 9, is currently screening at the Cannes Film Market. The film was featured on Magic Johnson's television network “Aspire!” as part of the American Black Film Festival series. “Counter Histories: Rock Hill” continues to win the best documentary and audience awards in film festivals around the world. A cornerstone of his philosophy and the mantra for his company is to develop media concepts with diverse and universal appeal with the highest of production standards. Fr3deR1cK actively encourages and demands diversity in staffing and hiring in order to accomplish this goal. His commitment to training and mentoring young people of color, women, and LGBTQ youth is unwavering.