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 [...]
November
10,
2023
Via Andscape, a report on the Las Vegas Raiders: the NFL’s first club to have African Americans at team president, general manager and head coach:
The photo, which is unlike any in NFL history, shows the hiring potential of [...]
September
15,
2023
Via SI.com, a look at how no NFL team has had more games started by Black quarterbacks than the Eagles:
Donovan McNabb watches Jalen Hurts, studying the Eagles’ quarterback and his sense of history; specifically, a lineage [...]
September
13,
2023
Via The Washington Post, commentary about why Deion Sanders isn’t just a football story:
The Colorado Buffaloes are the talk of college football. In part that’s because they won one game in all of 2022 and then started the [...]
September
13,
2023
Via NPR, an article on Carl Nassib who made queer NFL history and is now stepping away from the game:
Carl Nassib made history when he became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Now he's moving on to the next [...]
August
25,
2023
Courtesy of The Athletic, a look at one woman’s vision for more female coaches takes root, with help from the NFL and others:
Encircled by 30 or so teenage girls in the end zone of a high school practice field, Pam Baker [...]