Sports & Society
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Eagles award $270,000 in grants to area-based organizations through team’s Social Justice Fund
The Eagles chose to support social justice issues aimed at reducing violence in Philadelphia for the fourth year in a…
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Jim Brown Was NFL’s Best Player, Dynamic Civil Rights Activist
(Original Caption) Jim Brown running with abandon against the Philadelphia Eagles. Bettmann Archive Jim Brown was the best player the…
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‘Something’s got to change’ – How the Vikings are pushing for social justice
Courtney CroninJul 3, 2020, 07:10 AM ET Close Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before…
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New Study Suggests Athlete Activism Doesn’t Impact Performance | College of Arts and Sciences
Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 marked four years since Colin Kaepernick started peacefully protesting racial injustice during the national anthem at…
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Emily Walsh makes history as the first student awarded with the Vincent Jackson Community Champion Award
Emily Walsh is a recent graduate from the USF College of Public Health (COPH) with a BSPH and a double…
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A look at Jim Brown’s life and legacy as a football great and activist
Amna Nawaz: One of the greatest legends of the NFL has died. Hall of Famer Jim Brown, running back for…
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A look at 100 years of diversity in the NFL
Richard LapchickSep 5, 2019, 06:51 AM ET Close American leader of the sports boycott of South Africa from 1975 until…
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Jay-Z’s new NFL partnership, and the backlash to it, explained
It was supposed to be good news, the joining of a beloved but beleaguered sports corporation and a heralded rapper…
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Thanks to football and community service work alike, Jalen Travis enters NFL with simple mindset: ‘Grinders win’
Travis, who played football at Princeton and Iowa State, chose the two schools both for their football culture and education…
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More than T-shirts and hashtags: Measuring social justice impacts in the NFL
As controversies regarding kneeling as a form of protest have receded from global headlines, little has been written about what…