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Turns Out the Nearly $90,000,000 Donation to Prove the NFL Cares About Social Justice Is Bullshit
On Thursday, The Root staff writer Michael Harriot and I argued as to whether the agreement reached between NFL owners to donate some $90 million to various social justice causes as an answer to players’ protests was good business or just hush money to silence a movement. I posited that protest had sprouted a monetary…
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NFL Players Speak Out in Congress on Criminal-Justice Reform, Police Killings of Blacks
In the past few years, there has been an uptick in press coverage of police brutality targeting the African-American community, coupled with the already troubled and biased criminal-justice system that penalizes black people often and harshly. This, in turn, has brought a widely publicized rise in the mobilization of the black community and its allies…