sports

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/15/2020
  

  Michael Holding: 'This is something I’ve had inside of me for years'

  A legendary Jamaican cricketer and broadcaster has recently gone public to share his experiences of racism and support current protests for racial justice. 

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• SOURCE: National Trust for Historic Preservation
  10/5/2020
  

  Hinchliffe Stadium’s Comeback is a Home Run

  For Black Americans, the amphitheater-style stadium was home to and embodied the incredible spirit of Negro Leagues baseball. It will now be renovated so its story can be preserved.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9/17/2020
  

  Taking the Next Knee Is this Athletic Revolt For Real and Is It a Danger to Donald Trump?

  by Robert Lipsyte

  Today's protests by pro athletes, with the WNBA leading the way, appear to be advancing beyond past waves of activism in the world of sports. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/9/2020
  

  The Players’ Revolt Against Racism, Inequality, and Police Terror

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The radicalization of young Black professional athletes is a stunning development in this unfolding, raucous movement, one that demonstrates the sheer scale of racial inequality and a deep need to do something about it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/1/2020
  

  John Thompson Led Black America’s Basketball Team

  Today's racial justice activism by prominent Black athletes has roots in the influence of the late Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. 

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• SOURCE: Kansas City Star
  9/2/2020
  

  Don’t Rename Jackson County — But Let’s Honor Royals Great Bo, Not Slave Owner Andrew

  We can keep calling it Jackson County, but instead of Andrew we can all agree it honors Bo. Put up a statute of Bo Jackson snapping a hickory bat over his knee, and let’s call it a day.

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• SOURCE: Age of Revolutions
  8/17/2020
  

  Liberté, Equality, #ICantBreathe! Teaching the Age of Revolutions Using the NBA’s 2020 Summer Restart

  by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

  The slogans NBA players are wearing on their jerseys can help lead students to understand the objectives of 18th century revolution and the incompleteness of attempts to secure the rights and dignity of all humanity.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/16/2020
  

  Baseball is Honoring the Negro Leagues. It Needs to Explain why they Existed.

  Major League Baseball's celebration of the centennial of the Negro Leagues whitewashes the role of major league owners in segregating baseball with an 1887 "Gentlemen's Agreement."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/11/2020
  

  Black College Athletes are Rising up Against the Exploitative System they Labor In

  by Amira Rose Davis

  While athletes’ collegiate activism in the 1960s and 1970s produced limited wins, today’s movement echoes many of the still-unanswered demands of that time.

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• SOURCE: Activist History Review
  8/1/2020
  

  Time to Cancel 2020 Baseball Season: A Lesson for Colleges and Universities

  by Michael T. Barry Jr.

  It is clear the MLB in-person COVID experiment has been a failure. Colleges and universities should take note of this failure and act accordingly.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  Playing College Football in 2020 Would Continue to Devalue Black Lives

  by Eddie R. Cole

  In many ways, the disproportionate number of black student-athletes preparing for their football seasons have become the figurative lab mice as some college leaders assess the feasibility of in-person classes.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  What's in a Name?: Decolonizing Sports Mascots

  by Paul C. Rosier

  Decolonizing sports history requires a deeper analysis of how false historical narratives that ‘blamed the victim’ became embedded in public venues in everyday life that shaped generations of Americans’ perceptions of Native people.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/14/2020
  

  The Deep History—and Troubling Impact—of Sports Teams Using Native American Mascots

  Adrienne Keene — a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and faculty member at Brown University’s American Studies and Ethnic Studies department, who is also the author of the Native Appropriations blog and a co-host of the All My Relations podcast — spoke to TIME about the history of Native American mascots and imagery.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/16/2020
  

  Confederate Flag Again Flown Over NASCAR Race

  NASCAR did not provide official comment on the SCV’s action in June, but Steve O’Donnell, the stock-car racing organization’s executive vice president and chief racing development officer, called the perpetrator of the stunt “a jackass” at the time in a tweet.

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
  7/15/2020
  

  University of Texas won’t Drop Song with Racist History as Players Requested

  University of Texas athletes had demanded that the university cease to use the song, which has roots in racist minstrelsy and the words of Robert E. Lee, as an anthem. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/4/2020
  

  The Anthem Debate Is Back. But Now It’s Standing That’s Polarizing.

  “You cannot sit around now in this post-George Floyd period we’re in and say, ‘We’re going to continue to take this safe position,’” says historian Charles Ross.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/5/2020
  

  Redskins, Indians and the Long Push to Drop Native American Mascots

  The National Congress of American Indians, a 75-year-old organization that represents Native American and tribal rights, has long called for the elimination of all “derogatory” mascots.

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• SOURCE: The Sportsman
  6/22/2020
  

  On this Day in 1938, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling Went to War

  Although his title fight with Joe Louis was treated as a symbol for both racial conflict and the looming battle between fascism and democracy, the German heavyweight was relieved to be dumped as a mascot of the Nazi party after a decisive loss to the African American champion.

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• SOURCE: Carleton Newsroom
  5/19/2020
  

  Carleton History Professor Wins Medals at Powerlifting Nationals

  Carleton University history professor Jennifer Evans was introduced to competitive powerlifting by a student and has moved to international competition.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  “The Last Dance” is the ‘Presidential Historian’ of Documentaries

  by Jason Steinhauer

  Viewers have embraced the ESPN Documentary "The Last Dance" as an escape and the best sports "fix" around. But its framing of leadership reflects a serious issue: the limits of how American media presents history.