Courtesy of The Guardian, an article on how Coca Gauff - as a high-profile, young Black athlete - uses tennis as a platform for social change and to help others:
It is three years since a 15-year-old Coco Gauff burst on to the [...]
Via SlamOnline, a look at Natasha Cloud's 2020 decision to step back from professional basketball to help foster racial equity in America:
In 1963, hundreds of thousands of Black Americans marched in Washington, DC, with one [...]
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Via The Players’ Tribune, commentary from Finnish soccer player Tim Sparv’s about keeping Qatar’s human rights abuses at the forefront ahead of the upcoming World Cup. “We have more influence than ever before,” he [...]
Via The Washington Post, an article on athletes’ forceful response to the Uvalde school shooting tragedy:
On the evening of May 26 — two days after the school shooting that claimed 21 lives in Uvalde, Tex., and two days [...]
Via The Hockey News, an article on the racist attacks on Nazem Kadri:
There’s a group of professional hockey players who go to work knowing that their opponents, and the fans of those opponents, will have a personal dislike [...]
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 [...]