After Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, 1950 was the only World Series without Black Americans – until this year. I hope baseball can work to improve its diversity and inclusion. [...]
October
22,
2022
Anti Racist Soccer Club (ARSC) is a nonprofit coalition of athletes, activists, and practitioners organized to fight systemic racism in and through American soccer. Emerging as an organic response to rampant racism in the U.S., [...]
October
22,
2022
Courtesy of Global Sport Matters, commentary on how one athlete activist went from writing an article to leading a movement that changed the landscape of collegiate track and field:
A year ago, fall of 2021, I was sitting [...]
October
22,
2022
Via Global Sport Matters, a look at how - two years after taking to the streets and going on strike in the name of racial justice - the young basketball thought-leaders of America's most liberal leagues still wonder how they can [...]
Twenty years before Colin Kapernick, former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf began to protest oppression and tyranny during the national anthem:
The United States of America was born from protest: the country’s roots grew from [...]
October
6,
2022
Via Bally Sports, an article on the Philadelphia 76'ers coach Doc Rivers efforts to advocate for racial justice:
Doc Rivers is at ease using his platform as an NBA coach to fight bigotry and racial injustice, campaign for [...]