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How Black American Tennis Players Changed The Game In The U.S.

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August 25, 2024

Via The Athletic, a look at how Black American tennis players have changed the face of the sport in the U.S.: James Blake has a story. It’s around 1990, and he’s trying to play in a regional under-12 tennis tournament [...]

Rickwood Field: Scene of Change for Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron

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August 17, 2024

Via SI.com, an article on the seventieth anniversary of two Black baseball icons meeting in a history-altering mixed race game in one of the most segregated cities in America: The small room will have to do. The most [...]

Contested Waters: Public Pools, Racism, and Social Justice in America

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August 2, 2024

Via Vox, a report on public pools, important not just for recreation but also social integration and justice: My summer Sunday afternoon ritual goes something like this: I wake up, kill time until noon when my local [...]

Why We Need To Pay Attention To Role of Race In Sport During This Summer’s Olympics

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July 24, 2024

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 [...]

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 [...]

Few Black Americans Play Baseball. MLB Doesn’t Seem to Care.

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July 5, 2024

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 [...]

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