Ron Rivera of the Washington Football Team was the only minority head coach hired in the NFL heading into the 2020 season and to the highest-ranking African American in the sport, that’s unacceptable. “When you look at mobility of Black…
In 1965, after beginning his officiating career working college games in the San Francisco Bay Area, the NFL hired Burl Toler as a head linesman—making him the first Black official in any major professional sports league. Toler, who died in 2009 at…
Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer facing murder charges in the killing of George Floyd, was released from custody after posting $1 million bond. The Hennepin County Department of Corrections confirmed on Oct. 7 that Chauvin posted the bond and…
No one circles the wagons like the Tennessee Titans. Sorry Chris Berman and the Buffalo Bills. Ravaged by positive COVID-19 tests, and without several key players on the team’s 53-man roster, the Titans beat the Bills 42-16 with an inspired…
African Americans in Nashville have a long standing love affair with sports. You can go back to the early days of the Negro League baseball teams, the golf tradition of Ted Rhodes, the early football teams at Fisk University, the…
When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the national anthem to bring awareness to social and other injustices faced regularly by Black and Brown individuals in America, the National Football League, President Donald Trump and others wrongly…
