Via Business Insider, a report on the first Black commissioner of a professional sports league in the US: On Wednesday, the Arena Football League (AFL) will announce that it is relaunching under new leadership with [...]

Courtesy of The Athletic, commentary on how the NFL's Raiders - by hiring Antonio Pierce - may help spark progress with Black head coaches in the league: Diversity is nothing new to the Raiders. Literally since the [...]

Via Andscape, a look at the NFL’s first all-Black quarterback room: Not many can go from being an HBCU football player to being on an NFL coaching staff of a Super Bowl contending team, but this is reality for Kerry Dixon, [...]

Via The Washingtonian, a look at how - amid the boiling racial tension and desegregation battles of the late 1960s and early ’70s - a group of young Black women teamed with a DC civil-rights leader to break the color barrier on [...]