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Born With Two Strikes

How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition.

by Toluse Olorunnipa, Griff Witte via Washington Post on October 8, 2020

Black College Athletes Are Rising Up Against the Exploitative System They Labor In

Will coronavirus prompt the house of cards of college athletics to come tumbling down?

by Amira Rose Davis via Made By History on August 11, 2020

Thanksgiving Has Been Reinvented Many Times

From colonial times to the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was very different from the holiday we know now.

by Elizabeth Pleck, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on November 1, 2019

Lightning Struck

How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.

by Max Blau via The Bitter Southerner on January 22, 2019

Marques Colston of the New Orlean Saints during a game, Asim Bharwani, Flickr

The NFL and a History of Black Protest

For far too long, Americans have used football to sell the ideas of democracy and fair play. But for Black America, this is an illusion.

by Louis Moore via Black Perspectives on September 12, 2018

African American medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos with their fists raised during the national anthem at the 1968 Olympics.

This Isn’t the First Time Professional Athletics, Protest and Politics Have Mixed

The long history of athletes taking a stand for racial justice.

by Michael MacCambridge via The Oklahoma Eagle on September 1, 2018

Pat Tillman memorial with American flags.

The NFL, the Military, and the Hijacking of Pat Tillman’s Story

Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.

by Ryan Devereaux via The Intercept on September 28, 2017

Bombing Nagasaki: The Scrapbook

A "yearbook" documents the U.S. military occupation of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

by Clark Parker via The Tokyo Files Archives on May 2, 2016

Jim Brown.

Black Champions: Interview with Jim Brown

On inclusion of African American athletes in college sports.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 19, 1985

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