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NBA Players Get the Green Light to Replace Names on Jerseys With Personalized Social Justice Messages
After the deaths of Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin, we saw NBA players don hoodies and T-shirts in order to create awareness around the injustices that befall our communities. And in looking to take those efforts even further, CBS Sports reports that the NBA has given players the green light to replace their names on…
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NASCAR Taps Mike Phillips to Play the National Anthem and He Seasoned It With a Dash of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'
OK, NASCAR. We get it. After waving Confederate flags in our faces for decades, while having nooses just hanging around everywhere like chandeliers, you love us now. You truly love us. You banned the Confederate flag from your events despite the fact that it increased white-on-white crime by 472 percent, and in your latest bid…
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Somebody Tell Cam Newton That the New England Patriots Ain't It
Much like Issa Rae, I’m rooting for everybody Black. So much so that as much as I’d love for Cam Newton to enjoy a bounce-back season after battling injuries the past two years, I’m still trying to reconcile the fact that he’s now a card-carrying member of the only team I hate more than the…
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Alabama Football Drops Video Speaking Out Against Racism: 'All Lives Can’t Matter Until Black Lives Matter'
On Thursday, the Alabama Crimson Tide became the latest sports team to release a video speaking out against systemic racism. Following in the footsteps of videos released by the Baltimore Ravens and some of the biggest names in the NFL, the Crimson Tide make it explicitly clear that “all lives can’t matter until Black lives…
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Jayson Tatum's Next Contract Could Be an Unexpected Casualty of the Coronavirus
When last we left the Boston Celtics, Jayson Tatum was ballin’. The Duke product, who spent his summer under the tutelage of Kobe Bryant in 2018, had finally blossomed into the superstar we all knew he had in him. He was a dual-threat who could score with ease and just so happened to be one…
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So Now That the Dust Has Settled, Who's In and Who's Out of the NBA Bubble?
When the NBA announced its plans to resume its NBA season at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando, it gave players two options: either partake in the festivities, and enjoy job perks like reduced salaries and being kept away from their families until after the first round of the playoffs, or stay home…
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Damn, Y'all. Vince Carter Is Really Done
In a past life, I hated Vince Carter. My girlfriend at the time did a horrendous job of hiding her high school crush on the recently drafted, North Carolina product. So as he spent his rookie season defying gravity and performing the type of aerial stunts typically reserved for a trapeze artist, I stewed with…
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Bubba Wallace's Mother Spills the Tea on Other Drivers Calling Him the N-Word: 'We’ve Been Through All of That'
To the surprise of no one, Bubba Wallace’s mother insists that her son has faced racism time and time again throughout the course of his professional racing career. During an appearance on Sirius XM’s The Joe Madison Show, Desiree Wallace made it a point to call a thing a thing. “This is not his first…
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The Washington Redskins Want Nothing to Do With Their Racist Past, But Opt to Retain Their Racist Name
In the latest display of performative allyship, we have the Washington Redkins, who are doing just about everything humanly possible to pretend like they never had a racist-ass owner even though they still have a racist-ass name. Case in point, check out what they did last week, per ESPN: The statue of former Washington Redskins…
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In Its Efforts to Make Itself a More Inclusive Sport, NASCAR Has Failed Already
Black folks are tired. When we say this among ourselves, the implication is understood. But since we now live in a world rife with brand spanking new “allies,” that phrase likely requires an explanation. Racism is exhausting, which, in turn, means white people are inherently exhausting too. Every single day of our lives, we’re either…
