Via The Detroit News, an article on ex-NHLer Akim Aliu who has recently landed a book deal on confronting racism in hockey:
Glancing at the illustration of the boy with the far-off stare standing next to a bus on the cover of [...]
April
15,
2022
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on other leaders who broke through racial barriers in their respective sports:
Every April 15, Major League Baseball goes to great lengths to honor Jackie Robinson on the anniversary [...]
April
8,
2022
Via The Harvard Gazette, a report on how ex-pro soccer player Justin Morrow, founder of Black Players for Change, focuses on raising diversity in leadership roles:
The son of an African American police officer and an Irish [...]
March
22,
2022
Via YouTube, a TED Talk by point guard Renee Montgomery, winnner of a college national championship at UConn and a pair of WNBA titles with the Minnesota Lynx, who - when racist incidents plagued the country in 2020 - took a step [...]
February
26,
2022
Via The Undefeated, an article on the 55th anniversary of the 1967 Cleveland Summit in which top Black athletes joined together too support boxer Muhammad Ali’s refusal to fight in Vietnam:
NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland [...]
February
20,
2022
Via Global Sport Matters, commentary on how - just as with school desegregation during the Cold War - legal victories or public pressure rarely have turned into tipping points for change in racial equity in the NFL and how, while [...]