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Racism in Football: New Research Shows Media Treats Black Men Differently to White Men

By Paul Ian Campbell — 2021

Ideas of black people as natural athletes contribute to wider social myths of black people as hyperphysical, uncontrollably strong and cognitively challenged. These ideas have very real consequences for black communities in Britain.

Read on theconversation.com

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We Need to Talk about an Injustice | Bryan Stevenson

In an engaging and personal talk—with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks—human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been...

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Indentured: The Battle to End the Exploitation of College Athletes

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?” In the four years since Joe Nocera...

Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss

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Megan Rapinoe Calls Out Sports Illustrated During Speech

Megan Rapinoe calls out Sports Illustrated; Rick Strom breaks it down.

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Michael Phelps Opens Up About Struggles with Anxiety | TODAY

Legendary Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps sat down with Megyn Kelly on Megyn Kelly TODAY to talk about his retirement from the sport, his growing family and his past struggles with anxiety and depression, chronicled in the new documentary “Angst.

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LeBron James Shedding Light on Racism in America | ESPN

LeBron James sits down with Rachel Nichols to shed light on racism in America and how he and his family are handling the racial slurs that were written on his Los Angeles home. Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://ow.ly/1YWF30aFCi3 Subscribe NOW to ESPN on YouTube: http://ow.

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Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports

When Cyd Zeigler started writing about LGBT sports issues in 1999, no one wanted to talk about them. Today, this is a central conversation in American society that reverberates throughout the sports world and beyond.

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Black History: Athletes Who Stood Up for Social Justice | USA TODAY

Black athletes like Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith and Colin Kaepernick are connected through America’s sports history.

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Race Matters

First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr.

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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture.

Alice Wong (editor)

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Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence...

Marc Lamont Hill

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