Pride & Passion Exhibit at the Oak Park Public Library, Village of Oak Park, IL - October, 2009 with Sir Cedric

Museums, Libraries, Media, Colleges & Universities, etc.

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  • African American Museum at Fair Park (Dallas, TX) Guest Curator
  • Applebee’s International (Overland Park, KS)
  • Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), Chicago, IL
  • Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) (Arlington, VA) for Wendel Smith's Red Smith Award
  • ​Baylor University (Andy Cooper & Rube Foster interview)
  • Berry College (Rome, GA)
  • Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (co-host with Charles Barkley)
  • Birmingham Public Library (Pride & Passion)
  • Black Archives of Mid-America (Kansas City, MO)
  • Black Entertainment Television (BET)
  • Bladen County (Elizabethtown, NC) Public Library (Pride & Passion)
  • Bruce Watkins Cultural Heritage Center (Kansas City, MO) (various exhibits)
  • Chicago Baseball Museum [view Buck O'Neil & Black Baseball]
  • Chicago White Sox (Double Duty Classic - 2008 & 2014) (with Michael Smith of His & Hers)
  • Chicago White Sox and the Centennial Celebration of the Negro Leagues
  • CNN [Cable News Network] (Atlanta, GA)
  • Columbus (MS) Convention and Visitors Bureau - Sam Hairston Field 
  • Detroit Tigers - Negro League Weekend Celebration
  • ESA Designs (Abilene, KS) - Negro Leagues Baseball Museum's static exhibits
  • ESPN and ESPN2 (Bristol, CT)
  • Exhibits USA (Kansas City, MO)
  • Forty Acres & A Mule (Girl 6)
  • FOX Sports Net
  • Gates BBQ Restaurants (Kansas City, MO)
  • George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
  • Harper Woods Public Library (Harper Woods, MI) (Pride & Passion)
  • ​HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
  • Hillcrest High School (Chicago, IL) Crowning Achievements exhibit
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • Indiana University (IUPUI) Civil Rights and the National Pastime: The History of Black Baseball in Indiana (with Michael Wilbon of PTI)
  • Josh Gibson Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA)
  • Kansas City (MO) Museum at Corinthian Hall
  • Kapital Entertainment (West Hollywood, CA)
  • Kentucky Fried Chicken (Louisville, KY)
  • KIPP Academy (Kansas City, MO) - Black History Month
  • The Living Century (PBS)
  • Lockport Public Library (Des Moines, IA) (Pride & Passion)
  • Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation with Dave Roberts and Jerry Hairston, Jr.
  • Major League Baseball (New York, NY)
  • Major League Baseball Properties (New York, NY)
  • Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI)
  • Museum of Texas Tech University Association (Lubbock, TX) (We Are the Ship)
  • Muskegon (MI) Museum of Art  (We Are the Ship)
  • National Archives of Central Plains Regions
  • National Association of Supervisors for Business Education (NASBE) (Topeka, KS)
  • National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum (Cooperstown, NY)
  • National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)
  • National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia, PA) (Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American)
  • Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (Kansas City, MO)
  • New York Mets
  • North American Society for Sports History (NASSH)
  • Oak Park Public Library, Village of Oak Park, IL (Pride & Passion) [SEE VIDEO ABOVE]
  • Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith
  • Peachtree Restaurants (Kansas City, MO)
  • Philadelphia Phillies
  • Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Poughkeepsie (New York) Public Library (Pride & Passion)
  • Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
  • RadicalMedia (New York, NY)
  • R.E. Hunt Museum & Cultural Center (Columbus, MS) (with Robert Paige)
  • Romeoville Public Library (Chicago, IL) Jackie Robinson Legacy program
  • Saint Xavier University (Chicago, IL)
  • Seamheads Negro Leagues Database
  • Smith-Kramer Fine Arts Exhibits (Kansas City, MO) - Stamps of Greatness exhibit
  • Southwestern Oregon Community College (Coos Bay, Oregon)
  • The State Museum of Pennsylvania
  • Stigall Museum (Humboldt, TN) Crowning Achievements and Currency of Change and The HELP exhibits
  • The Stonesong Press, Inc.
  • Temple University Libraries - "The American Idea on Sports and Race"
  • Texas Rangers (Arlington, TX)
  • The Museum of Bus Transportation (Hershey, PA)
  • The National Pastime Museum 
  • Turner Broadcasting System, Atlanta, GA
  • UMB Bank (Kansas City, MO) - Currency of Change exhibit
  • United States Postal Service Advisory Board - Rube Foster stamp by Kadir Nelson, et al.
  • University of Miami's North American Society for Sports History (NASSH) Conference with Robert Paige
  • University of Memphis (Pride & Passion)
  • University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) (with Dr. Brian Carroll)
  • University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (Pride & Passion)
  • Wheaties - General Mills (Minneapolis, MN)