Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement
Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of
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Black Cheerleaders and A Long History of Protest
In November 2018, Kayla Morris, a member of the San Francisco 49ers’s Gold Rush cheerleading squad, became the first NFL
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Spike Lee, Nike, and Corporate Activism
In early September, Nike unveiled a new advertising campaign to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of its “Just Do It” motto,
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The NFL and a History of Black Protest
In 1944, Black activist and sportswriter Halley Harding, argued that “most persons, corporations or business almost always forget the people or incidents
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There Is No NFL Without Black Labor
“We don’t want four boys from Oakland telling us how to run our stadium,” Ray Schuessler defiantly demanded in his
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