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Breaking the Color Line: 1940 to 1946

By Library of Congress

In 1945, the Jim Crow policies of baseball changed forever when Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson of the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs agreed to a contract that would bring Robinson into the major leagues in 1947.

Read on www.loc.gov

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Caste: A Brief History of Racism, Sexism, Classism, Ageism, Homophobia, Religious Intolerance, Xenophobia, and Reasons for Hope

We have inherited a world full of humans who have been healed and hurt by other humans. There was a time, in an age before this one, when ignorance was forgivable. But that time has passed. Now is not the time for the enlightened to sneer at the brutes. Sneering hurts people.

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Press University
2025
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U.S. Women’s National Team Sues U.S. Soccer for Discrimination | SI Now | Sports Illustrated

The entire United States women’s national soccer team has filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. SI legal analyst Michael McCann unpacks the players’ case and how he expects it to play out.

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2019
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Intersectionality - A Look At Race, Gender & Class

We take a look at how one's race, gender and class can have significant effects on how one is shaped and treated by society.

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2022
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#LetHerRun Campaign Calls to End Discrimination against Female Athletes

The criteria that define a woman in high-level sports still blocks women and trans people from competing. @KierJunos reports on the #LetHerRun campaign, and an SFU professor’s connection to the international movement.

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2020
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Beyond Triathlon: A Dual Memoir of Masters Women Athletes

Female students today never knew a time without Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which protects students from sex-based discrimination and exclusion in education programs or activities. It benefits all women, especially female athletes.

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Celeste Callahan, Dottie Dorion, Jane E. Hunt
2025
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President Biden’s Discrimination Ban Gives Hope to Transgender Student Athletes

NewsNation on WGN America: The debate over whether transgender student athletes in high school and college can compete according to the gender with which they identify.

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2021
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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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Megan Rapinoe
2019
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Fighting Sex Discrimination in Sports

Noriana Radwan lost her scholarship for “unsportsmanlike behavior” commonly accepted from male athletes. What happened? How do we make sure that all athletes, female athletes, trans athletes, LGBTQ+ athletes, belong in sports?

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2020
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US Women’s Soccer Players Speak Out on Gender Discrimination Suit | TODAY

Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan of the U.S. women’s soccer team join TODAY to talk about teaming with 26 other players to file a gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, calling for equal pay and better treatment.

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Megan Rapinoe
2019
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How Billie Jean King Changed Gender Equality in Sports

Former tennis star Bobby Riggs bragged that he could beat any female tennis player. In 1973, he met his match when he faced top-ranked Billie Jean King in a televised event dubbed the “Battle of the Sexes.”

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Billie Jean King
2017
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