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International soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is the latest celebrity to be hit with sexual assault allegations in the #MeToo movement as two women came forward with their stories last week.

A nine-year-old soccer player was getting ready to join her teammates on the field the same way she has for the past five years. Thats’ when a referee pulled her to the side and let her know that there was a problem – her hair bears were apparently against regulation. 

The use of blackface – non-black people covering their faces with something to make them appear to have darker skin – is pretty much viewed as offensive across the board. Well, this is at least in the United States, where every Halloween someone gets the not-so-bright idea to cover their face in brown makeup as […]

  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.

Very few athletes, or any person in the public eye for that matter, handle themselves with the amount of humility and class that Derrick Rose does. And I for one am so glad that he can be someone who kids look up to. More kids will believe that they can make it. Because he did.

The lack of diversity in hockey is no secret. Joel Ward, a Canadian of Bajan descent, is one of approximately 18 Black players in the NHL. His name has been in the news lately, not because he is helping his team advance through the NHL playoffs but because of the racist backlash he has received […]

A few years ago during a trip to Las Vegas, NV (the only place not named Fort Wayne, Indiana where my father willingly spends the night), I spied Doug Williams in the food court of an outlet mall.  My father, sister, and I were sitting at a table eating crappy fast food when I spotted […]