ARIZONA COYOTES TOP BLACK DRAFT PICK WAS CONVICTED FOR BULLYING BLACK TEEN WITH DISABILITES. Craig Harris and Jose M. Romero The Arizona Coyotes last month boasted about having their chief […]

‘SPORTING BLACKNESS’ EXAMINES RACE AND REPRESENTATION IN FILM. Sports films, as a genre, are under-appreciated by cinema scholars, according to Samantha Sheppard, … [an] Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies […]

WITH NO ROWDY FANS, ESPN TURNS TO LITTLE RICHARD FOR ‘MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL’ THEME. A few weeks ago, the members of little-known band Butcher Brown got a life-changing opportunity. ESPN had […]

WHY DID A VIRTUAL ULTRA BAN ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’? On July 31, Ben Chan, a recreational runner from New York City, finished a 635-mile virtual ultramarathon, known as The Great Virtual […]

WHY NFL OWNERS ARE SUPPORTING BLACK PLAYERS’ PROTESTS — fOR NOW. NFL team owners say they’re supporting players’ freedom to protest. That’s a turnabout from 2017, when President Trump criticized league players for kneeling […]