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Al-Tony Gilmore, Ph.D. is Historian Emeritus of the National Education Association and was the first scholar to explore the intersection of sports and society with his book, Bad Nigger : The National Impact of Jack Johnson. He is the author of several noted books including, All the People : NEA's Legacy of Inclusion and Its Minority Presidents, and A More Perfect Union : The Merger of the South Carolina Education Association and the Palmetto Education Association. He wrote the introduction to the reissuing of E.B. Henderson's classic, The Negro in Sports. His reviews and articles have appeared in The New Republic, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Journal of American History, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Scholar, and Journal of African American History among others. He most recently served as Visiting Scholar in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Research Center of The George Washington University.
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He will have his day in court and the public will learn more than ever about his unscrupulous and dishonorable business practices and immoral character.
Donald Trump was soundly defeated in the presidential election by 74 electoral votes, which included loses in the reliably deep red states of Georgia and Arizona,…
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The advice that has been given for generations will soon have no currency with the millennials. Admonishing their children that the playing field can be leveled by working twice as hard is no longer credible. It is also dishonest.
The elite college admissions cheating scandal could not have been exposed at a better time, since it does not involve the usual suspects : black students…
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She ever feels her threeness, - an American, an African American, a woman; three souls, three warring ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
Arguably the most dominating and enduring champion athlete in any sport of the 21st century, Serena Williams has become an icon of class, dignity, activism, generosity,…
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The NFL is the most gigantic golden goose in the history of professional sports, and owners do not want discussions of race to infiltrate the white fan base, potentially jeapordizing or impeding the laying of those billions of golden eggs.
There is nothing new about a consensus being reached among athletic officials or owners of sports teams that it is perfectly alright to violate the Constitutional…
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The visibility of black athletes through televised sporting events, sports pages, sports news networks, capacity filled stadiums and arenas all across America, and product endorsement and corporate sponsorships, cannot be compared to any other profession, and the cumulative impact is powerful.
Black athletes matter. In fact, however much it may be deplored, they matter and represent more to their race than they should. Of all black professionals,…
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