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The next 50 years of Title IX will focus on the female trans athleteSociety once felt a way about new facilities and amenities for female athletes. Those same feelings are here again with trans athletes....
9 Black Athletes Who Integrated Professional SportsAfter 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...
North Carolina apparently forgot “Bathroom Bill’ fallout, as new anti-trans bill would force sports world’s hand again
A good rule of thumb in life is to always avoid making the same mistake twice....
The lie that politicians are seeking to protect women with transgender exclusion bills
Soaring in like a
phalanx across state legislatures, this has been the year of bills
designed to keep transgender boys and girls from participating in
sports....
College athletes: NCAA must act swiftly against states passing transgender discrimination laws
College athletes are challenging the NCAA to stand up for the rights of transgender athletes....
Bucks President: "Milwaukee Is The Most Segregated, Racist Place I’ve Ever Experienced"<em></em>
Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the country. The city’s structural inequalities came into focus on the national stage last month as protests swept through the city after Milwaukee PD killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith after a traffic stop. Most in the controversy-averse world of professional...
76 Years Later, Maryland Tries To Right A College Football Wrong
In October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched their offensive star, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The problem, as Maryland saw it, was that he wasn't the right type of colored boy....
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How A White Couple Stuck Up For Black Ballplayers In Jim Crow Florida
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...