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Bud Selig, the commissioner of the MLB, has created a task force designed to examine why there’s so few black athletes in baseball. What do you think accounts for the decline?

It seems every day there’s a topic that has my timeline jumping. Tuesday morning there were still smatterings of conversation about CryGate 2011 but the big topic of conversation was Jalen Rose and his controversial remarks regarding Duke basketball’s recruiting habits. Rose, in his soon to be released documentary, remarks that he has a personal […]

Serena Williams is distinguished as one of the best athletes to ever live. She has broken multiple tennis records that for many has enshrined her as the GOAT. However, Williams is also distinguished by being the most frequently drug tested top tennis player.

Colin Kaepernick did nothing wrong. I’ll repeat that as many times as I have to until people get it. Despite that fact, the former [and hopefully soon-to-be current] NFL player is being crucified after his protests of the National Anthem last season. NFL teams are avoiding him as if he has something contagious and are electing […]

The NAACP claims that a group of white Mississippi high school students placed a noose around the neck of a black student on Oct. 13 and yanked backwards. The organization is now demanding that a full investigation into the incident, according to the Washington Post.

After the roller coaster of emotions that was last week, many athletes have come out to ask for more public outreach in regards to police violence and accountability. Not much unlike when NBA players wore t-shirts that read “I Can’t Breathe,” four WNBA players from the Minnesota Lynx wore t-shirts that honored all of last […]

    A Canadian newspaper has issued an apology for referring to a black hockey player as the “dark guy in the middle” on one of its stories. Jordan Subban scored a goal in a preseason game for the Vancouver Canucks Tuesday night. The Vancouver Sun published an awesome photo of the moment, but it was the […]

Racist comments flooded social media networks last week after Montreal Canadiens denfenceman P.K. Subban scored a winning goal in a match against the Boston Bruins. Unhappy Bruins fans took to Twitter, posting all types of racist, derogatory comments on the site. 

  While participating in an Olympic soccer game, black Italian player Mario Balotelli was subjected to such harsh and racist comments from fans that he broke down crying.

Isaac Phillips is a 13-year-old biracial teen who played for the Lunenberg Blue Knights football team. He is no longer a member due to reports of being harassed by teammates.  On Tuesday, state and local police conducted a search at the Chase Road home of Anthony J. Phillips and Andrea Brazier, Isaac’s parents, after graffiti […]

Washington Wizards Center Jason Collins has become to first openly gay player in a major American team sport: “”I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” Kudos to Jason Collins for taking such an important step forward; both for himself and for so many others.

Three young African American chess players from the New York-area are officially considered masters of the game, a designation that has been bestowed upon only 2% of the United States Chess Federation’s 47,000 members. Justus Williams, Joshua Colas and James Black Jr. each achieved master status before the age of 13! Read more at BlackYouthProject.com