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US Olympic Committee Says It Won't Sanction Athletes for Racial Justice Protests
This year, people from all walks of life used their voices to protest against the injustice they saw around the world. Among those participating in protests in 2020 were athletes in the NBA, WNBA, U.S. women’s soccer, NFL, and other fields, who received comparatively less outrage than professional players have in the past (see: Colin…
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Paul George, Clippers Agree to 5-Year Extension Worth Up to $226 Million: 'I Owe Them a Trophy'
2020 has been a rough year for all of us, but it’s been a particularly ugly year for the Los Angeles Temecula Clippers. After spending their 2019-20 offseason assembling the closest thing to Thanos and the Black Order that the NBA has seen in recent memory, the team left their Infinity Gauntlet at home and…
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Rate of Black Children Who Have Received Flu Shots Is Down 10 Percent From Last Year
While the number of people who have received flu shots this year has seen an overall increase, new data has shown that when it comes to Black children that number has actually gone down. According to NBC News, a report released on Wednesday has officials at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention somewhat alarmed.…
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Mike Tyson Has About 80 Million Reasons to Jump in the Ring With Evander Holyfield Next: 'Let's Do It!'
Not only did Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr.’s exhibition match provide us with an endless supply of memes, but it proved that even after a 15-year layoff, boxing fans will still clamor to watch Iron Mike throw hands in the ring. From the New York Post: The former heavyweight champion’s exhibition draw against Roy…
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Moving Beyond Civil Rights: The Importance of Acknowledging the Movement for Black Lives as a Human Rights Issue
“Black folks, you know, haven’t even had the right and the privilege throughout our time on this continent to be recognized even as human beings.” —Rukia Lumumba, founding director of the People’s Advocacy Institute and co-director of the Electoral Justice Project of the Movement for Black Lives text 1868. That was the year the United…
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Atlanta Hawks Become 1st Sports Franchise to Receive a Significant Loan Underwritten Exclusively By Black Banks
Cha-ching! It’s no secret that the Black dollar is big business, and with the Atlanta Hawks needing to refinance the construction loan for their Emory Sports Medicine Complex, who better to go to than a Black-owned bank? On Thursday, the Hawks announced that with the help of the newly-formed National Black Bank Foundation, they secured…
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Colin Kaepernick and Ben & Jerry's Are Here to 'Change the Whirled'
In case you missed the memo, Ben & Jerry’s has been about that action. Need receipts? Here’s what I wrote about them last year when the premium ice cream company partnered with the Advancement Project to release the flavor Justice Remix’d as part of their efforts “to address the destructive cycle of mass incarceration in…
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After 8 Years of Marital Bliss, the Houston Rockets Have a James Harden Problem
The workplace is delicate. There are egos to manage, conflicting personalities, roles to assign, salaries to determine, and morale is kind of a big deal too. And after eight seasons of perennial disappointment in Houston, James Harden has made it abundantly clear that he has no desire to play for the Rockets. There’s plenty of…
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Scottie Pippen Wasn't Feeling The Last Dance, and Yes, He Let Michael Jordan Know All About It
Look, I get it. Scottie Pippen is a man of principle, and at the end of the day, he just wants people to put some respect on his name. His on-again, off-again ex-wife, Larsa, has already made his cushy gig as an NBA analyst unnecessarily complicated, and the last thing he needs is his former…