Via CNN, commentary on the role of race in sport:
For many nations — not least the US — the upcoming Paris Olympics will take place against a background of deep political and social division. Perhaps, though, the [...]
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 [...]
Courtesy of Esquire, an article on why major league baseball has so few Black American players:
Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic . . . America’s game: has the snap, go, fling, of the American [...]
Via CBC, a report on the pioneering achievement of Eritrea's Biniam Girmay - the first Black cyclist to win a Tour de France stage:
Biniam Girmay grew up in Eritrea watching the Tour de France on TV each July with his [...]
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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 [...]
Courtesy of The Athletic, a report on France, racial politics, and 'the Mbappe effect' on the upcoming election:
The morning after France’s opening game of Euro 2024, the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) [...]