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How The NBA Got Into Business With An African Dictator

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July 28, 2024

Via ESPN, an article on the NBA, Rwanda, and sportswashing: In the summer of 2018, inside a national arena that felt more like a small-college gym, the NBA commissioner shot free throws with the president of Rwanda. It was a [...]

How the World’s Biggest Basketball Star Helped Richard Nixon Woo Black Voters

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July 21, 2024

Via Politico, a look at how - at the Republican National Convention in 1968 - Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned [...]

How Former NBA Star Luol Deng Led South Sudan Basketball to the Paris Olympics

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July 10, 2024

Via SI.com, a report on how South Sudan, the world's newest nation, is set to play in the Paris Olympics this summer, thanks to a visionary two-time All-Star and refugee: Last September, as the celebration picked up steam [...]

Power of the Dream: A Legacy of WNBActivism

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July 2, 2024

Via NPR, a report on a new documentary that highlights the WNBA's off-court player activism: Know how you can tell if women’s sports has finally broken into the American mainstream consciousness? When your 82-year-old [...]

Kobe Bryant’s Posthumous Assist To Women’s Basketball: Rise of the WNBA Orange Hoodie

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June 30, 2024

Via Medium, a reminder of Kobe Bryant's posthumous assist to women's basketball: I was supposed to be catching up on grading my sophomore students’ research papers. I grabbed a SLAM basketball magazine and a [...]

Your Silence Is a Knee on My Neck

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June 20, 2024

As we celebrate Juneteenth, a reminder that - following the murder of George Floyd - the WNBA star Natasha Cloud penned the following piece that emphasized the power athletes have to drive social change. A must-read. To [...]

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