Duke Slater (1898-1966)
Once you learn that a good life comes from a series of small gains you will move on to bigger things. This is the ethos of football legend Duke Slater. Frederick “Duke” Slater was the first Black lineman in the National Football League. He played for the Chicago Cardinals between 1926 and 1931 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020.
After his football career, Slater became an attorney on the South Side of Chicago and was the first Black judge to serve on the Cook County Superior Court. He earned his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1928 and practiced law while [...]
Just when you think journalism is dead, the three-year-old American Thoroughbred Journalism is the lively favorite to win Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
Actually, the last time horse racing was super popular was about the last time people carried around newspapers. Although the print edition of the Racing Form is always available at the Oakbrook Terrace off-track betting sports book on 22nd Street.
I will bet on Journalism if he is not a late scratch. I’ve bet on journalism my whole life. Racing horse partner Aron Wellman is former sports editor of the Beverly Hills High School newspaper and told the Los Angeles Times, “We believe that good horses should have good [...]
