Sports & Society
Explore football’s connections to community, education and public life through stories from Huddle Up Magazine.
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NFL Renews Commitment to Organizations Advancing Social Justice
As part of the NFL’s Inspire Change social justice initiative, the league announced grant renewals for 10 partners who are working to enact positive change in communities across…
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Jay-Z deal with NFL to include entertainment ventures, new social activism campaign
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RISE report aims to help the NFL go ‘From Protest to Progress’ — Andscape
This season, the NFL saw one of its most socially conscious years to date. From players taking a knee during…
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ALLCITY Network and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Launch Three-Year Partnership – Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Kardea BrownEmmy Nominated Food Network Host and Author, Host of “Delicious Miss Brown,” Former BBBS Staff Kardea Brown is an…
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HBCU football enters a transformative era
Football, within the realm of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), is experiencing a wave of excitement, and the start…
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Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87 – The Denver Post
By TOM WITHERS (AP Sports Writer) CLEVELAND (AP) — Jim Brown was virtually unstoppable in every arena. Whether on the…
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How many trees does it take to green the Super Bowl?
In 2019, billionaire E. Stanley Kroenke, whose company owns the recently-constructed SoFi Stadium in the Southern California city of Inglewood,…
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NFL Players Advocate For November To Be Activism Awareness Month
Social activism and sports have gone hand in hand throughout history. From Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, athletes not only…
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NFL Sunday Social Activism Sees Several Teams Scramble For Anthem
The National Football League’s Week 2 of its schedule again saw teams staying off the field when the national anthem…
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Broncos nominate Justin Simmons for 2021 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award presented by Nationwide
SIMMONS’ 2021 COMMUNITY WORK In June of 2020, Simmons announced the establishment of the Justin Simmons Foundation, a nonprofit organization…