Derrick Henry has led the NFL in rushing two years in a row. He’s been a workhorse when the team has needed him, a tone-setter on the field and in the locker room. So it came as no surprise when…
A season after capturing the AFC South title, the Titans have been rewarded with three primetime contests. Two of them will be played at Nissan Stadium. On Wednesday morning, the NFL announced the Titans will kick off the 2021 season…
The fight to make the Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday a holiday took 32 years, a lot of campaigning, and guest appearances including Stevie Wonder, Ted Kennedy, and the National Football League. King’s birthday was finally approved as a federal…
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…
