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Duke U Professor: Damar Hamlin Is Proof Football Violence Hurts Black Men More
Professor Tracie Canada calls it “terrifyingly ordinary” in an opinion piece for Scientific American.
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Former Pro Football Player and Republican Congressman J.C. Watts Spearheads First Black News Channel, Launching Nationally This Week
Did it really take a former Republican congressman to finally launch the first black news network? Apparently so. He’s a former professional football player, too. If that matters. The groundbreaking Black News Channel — the same one that The Root’s very own Michael Harriot wrote “looks pretty conservative” last year — will finally hit television…
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San Francisco 49ers Cornerback Richard Sherman Is Ready to Embrace Trump's Favorite Rookie as Long as He Can Play
San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman is ready to overlook new teammate and resident asshole Nick Bosa, a Trump loving, anti-Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the killing of unarmed black men, women and children. “One thing about football is that nobody really cares what you say if you can play,” Sherman told the Sacramento Bee on…
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Antoinette ‘Toni’ Harris, Woman in Super Bowl Ad, Makes Sports History by Earning Football Scholarship
Antoinette “Toni” Harris starred in a Toyota ad that played during the Super Bowl. The commercial was an ode to Harris’ perseverance to become a football player despite all odds, including cancer. On Tuesday that hard work paid off as Harris announced that she would be singing a letter of intent to play college football…