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LONDON — Thousands of anti-racism campaigners around the world staged demonstrations on Sunday, acting in solidarity with Americans protesting police violence after George Floyd, a Black man, died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes last
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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts | Afro
National Football League teams must now interview at least two minority candidates for head coaching positions under new resolutions that the league hopes will improve diversity among its 32
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“We Have The Right To Fight Back!”: Colin Kaepernick Supports George Floyd Protests
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Jones, David “Deacon” (1938-2013)
National Football League star David “Deacon” Jones was a dominant player in the League.  During Jones’ years on the football field he singlehandedly revolutionized the defensive end position. Throughout his fourteen-year stint in the NFL Jones managed to play in 190 games, missing only
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Fear has helped keep games away
Since March 1 when the NBA found out about positive coronavirus test results for Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, all the sports world games
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The NFL All But Admits That Colin Kaepernick Was Right All Along | The Oklahoma Eagle
The thoughts allegedly attributed to league commissioner Roger Goodell were a significantly diminished version of what was actually said by Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback blackballed by the NFL for delivering a far more effective message four years
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Protest Cost Him His Career. Still, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Urges On The Protesters
Nearly 24 years ago, basketball star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf knew he had to stand up for his beliefs, even if it was going to cost him his NBA
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BILL VAUGHAN'S TASTY CLIPS: Mary J. Blige witnesses horrors in new film ‘Body Cam’
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Fayetteville State University (1867-- )
Fayetteville State University is a historically black institution of the University of North Carolina system located in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  It is the second oldest higher education institution in North Carolina and was founded in 1867 as Howard School in honor of General Oliver Otis
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Eric Dickerson
Born in a small town of Sealy, Texas, in 1960, Eric Dickerson was raised by his uncle and aunt after his mother decided not to marry his father at the young age of 17. Even though he did not grow up with his father, Dickerson inherited athletic abilities from the former running back of Prairie View
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Former NFL exec finally admits owners blackballed Kaepernick for kneeling
The NFL reportedly conspired to keep Colin Kaepernick out of the league, according to a former
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Fort Valley State University (1939- )
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NFL Lists Colin Kaepernick As 'Retired' on Its Website, Causes Uproar After His Girlfriend Diab Speaks Out
But the NFL still listed him as “retired” when it recently changed its website, although he’s a free
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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentive Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts
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2 Area Players Have Shot At Their Dream In The NFL | Florida Sentinel Bulletin
GREG REAVES …Los Angeles Rams Prospect NAPOLEON MAXWELL …Chicago Bears Prospect       With the conclusion of the 2020 NFL Draft and the first fully virtual sports event, two NFL hopefuls have found themselves new
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Byron R. White
Byron R. White , in full Byron Raymond White (born June 8, 1917, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.—died April 15, 2002, Denver), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentive Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts
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Drew Brees Apologizes After Criticism Regarding NFL Player Protests
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Investigate not just Ahmad’s death, but the system that let his killers escape
The 64-year-old former police investigator and his 34-year-old son who are charged in his death told police he thought Mr. Arbery looked like a man suspected in several break-ins in the
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African Americans in Atlanta
Atlanta has long been known as a center of black wealth, political power and culture; a cradle of the Civil Rights Movement [1] and home to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It has often been called a black
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'Hypocrite': NFL's Roger Goodell Slammed For Statement On George Floyd Protests
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Saturday released a statement in support of the nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death, but Twitters users were quick to point out the hypocrisy of his
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Bruins Name New Athletic Director
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Emmitt Smith
Born on May 15, 1969, in Pensacola, Florida Emmitt Smith wished to be one of the Dallas Cowboys from a young age but the enthusiastic individual had to face many struggles before he could pursue a career in professional football. Belonging to a financially weak family, Smith had to juggle between
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Ignoring Blacks for Top NFL Jobs is Racist and Stupid – Free Press of Jacksonville
As the NFL tries to get back to work, the league is tweaking the venerable Rooney Rule, installed to give minority coaching candidates a chance to at least interview for jobs before being
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Patrick Ewing diagnosed, hospitalized for COVID-19: 'This virus is serious'
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Washington Redskins Wide Receiver Cody Latimer Arrested On Assault & Multiple Firearm Charges
Cody Latimer, who is a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins, was arrested on assault and firearm charges on Saturday after reportedly firing shots inside an
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Riots are the language of the unheard. What is it America is not hearing? – The Mississippi Link
And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over
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