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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.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/10/2020
  

  A History of Soccer in Six Matches

  From the Hungary team that shattered England’s delusions to the club that came to define the sport, through Pelé and Johan Cruyff, here are six games that explain modern soccer.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/10/2020
  

  Women’s Soccer Was Having a Moment. Then the Clock Stopped.

  As the coronavirus pandemic forces soccer clubs and sponsors to tighten their belts, a women’s game poised to break out hopes it doesn’t have to bear the cost.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/11/2020
  

  U.S. Soccer Apologizes For Saying Male Players Have 'More Responsibility' Than Women

  The soccer federation made the claims in hopes of convincing a federal court in California to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by members of the 2019 World Cup championship team.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/7/19
  

  The NBA's cowardice on China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The NBA just threw Hong Kong under the bus, purely for the sake of the almighty dollar. And if that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is."

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• 5/9/19
  

  Protesting with her Feet: The World’s Fastest Middle-Distance Woman versus Sports Governing Bodies

  by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

  A deeper look into athletics, gender, and Caster Semenya. 

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• 3/24/19
  

  Is Shoeless Joe Jackson Innocent? The Black Sox Scandal 100 Years Later

  by Granville Wyche Burgess

  As another baseball season begins, the history of baseball's biggest scandal and how its legacy legacy still shapes the sport today. 

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• 1/13/19
  

  Lots of People Won New Rights in the 1960s, but Not College Women Athletes

  by John Thelin

  Although the 1960s has been celebrated as a period of concern for equity and social justice, colleges showed scant concern for women as student-athletes.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-25-18
  

  200 Years On, U.K. Hunts for Grave of Man Called World’s 1st Black Sports Star

  One of London’s main rail stations is being redeveloped, prompting the excavation of a burial ground containing the remains of an estimated 45,000 Londoners, including the boxer Bill Richmond, a freed American slave.