Sports
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Black Girls Run! Friendship, Community, and Sisterhood (Part 1)
On the website “Stuff White People Like,” marathons are listed as #27. It describes running a marathon in the following way: To a white person,...
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Why Roland Martin's Homophobic Tweets Shouldn't Be Ignored, Even Now
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, & Kenyon Farrow Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves...
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"Truth to Power:"? No Truth or Empowerment in Jason Whitlock's Tweet
By the Collective (see below) The Feminist Wire | New Black Man We come together to express our collective disappointment over Jason Whitlock’s recent tweet about Jeremy Lin. ...
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A Super Failure: Domestic Violence and Football's Big Game
For the longest time I have heard that Super Bowl Sunday was a day of heightened domestic violence. Linked to alcohol consumption, frustrations over the...
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“Oh Hello No”: Homophobia and those t-shirts ain’t no joke
By David J. Leonard The college football season came to an end last night. It marked the conclusion of a bowl season that has been...
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Media, Sports and Black Queer Youth: Tayshana Murphy and the Dimming of Stars
I didn’t know Tayshana Murphy was gay. I’m from Harlem, and I like to think I’m tapped into important conversations among New York’s LGBTQ people...
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It Matters what Team You Play For: Heteronormativity in Sports
Oscar Wilde once described the game of Rugby as “a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.” While Wilde...
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Penn State Evil
By Charles E. Bowie As a former athlete and football player I struggled in coming to terms with what happened at Penn State. The cult...
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For the love of football, white masculinity and underprivileged boys
Jerry Sandusky, 67, a former Penn State University football coach, “credited as the architect of defenses that helped win national championships,” was arrested Saturday and charged with...
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Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper In the words of American poet Adrienne Rich, “All wars are useless to the dead.” Yet, while...