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Rangers winger Ryan Reaves discovers the history behind the family name

Reaves’ great-great-great-grandfather was Bass Reeves, who is considered the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River

By Branson Wright

Sports

The players and circumstances that paved the way for Willie O’Ree to break the NHL’s color barrier 60 years ago

O’Ree knows the story of the league’s first black player could have gone another way

By Rhiannon Walker

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Art Dorrington, the first black professional hockey player in the United States, dies at 87

Rangers signee dubbed the ‘Jackie Robinson of hockey’

By Rhiannon Walker