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Report: Tigers executives accused of misconduct toward womenAt least eight employees of the Detroit Tigers have been accused of misconduct toward women since 2023, The Athletic reported on Wednesday.,The media outlet's investigation began in April and included interviews with 45 current and former employees as well as access to emails, text messages, court f...

Taylor Swift is the first woman the NFL has ever prioritized. And it's nothing worth celebratingThe NFL doesn’t care about Taylor Swift — or women. Like most men, the NFL only cares about what Taylor Swift — and women — can do for them. ...

USWNT’s treatment is the latest example of right-wing hatred for ‘nasty women’Indigenous Americans were almost eradicated. Black people were enslaved. Asians are mistreated. Millions still want to “build a wall.” People of color have been oppressed for centuries, and each group has its own plight. But misogyny has stood the test of time. The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the re...

The constant need for a ‘smoking gun’ to prove racism is why Jerry Jones will get off scot-free

According to the policy, Jerry Jones hasn’t done anything wrong. That’s because anti-Blackness is never a crime....

9 Black Athletes Who Integrated Professional Sports

After Jackie Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, ending a six-decade ban on Black players in Major League Baseball, opportunities slowly began to expand for athletes of color. Robinson’s historic achievement—a formative moment of the postwar civil rights moveme...

USWNT settlement was 30 years in the making

The U.S. Women’s National Team has spent its entire existence not just battling opponents from abroad, but its own soccer federation. After a nearly three-year-long legal battle, U.S. Soccer settled in court with the U.S. women’s soccer team. The settlement, which was agreed to six years after five ...

Soccer legend Thierry Henry quits social media over racism, toxicity

Thierry Henry is leaving social media forever....

Jeremy Lin warned the sports world about #StopAsianHate, then a white terrorist killed six Asians in Atlanta — are you paying attention yet?

Far too often in America, racism is thought of as something that only Black people endure. But, as history and the present have always proved, hate has no color....