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The 2021 Black And Brown NFL Coaches Hiring List

This is list will be updated when Black and Brown coaches are hired in the NFL. It's well documented that NFL teams failed miserably this...
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Washington’s Jennifer King Becomes NFL’s First African American Female Assistant Position Coach

Jennifer King was a coaching intern with the Washington Football Team in 2020, and now she just made history. A former offensive assistant coach at...
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The Danger of Associating Hank Aaron with Respectability Politics

There’s a group of famous Black men whom Americans, mostly white people, believe have “transcended” race. Ernie Banks. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. Jackie Robinson. Muhammad Ali. Barack Obama. With the recent...
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Respect Due: Black NFL Coordinators Blaze Paths To Super Bowl LV

The hype around Super Bowl LV is that Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes will be facing off. Some have called it the GOAT vs...
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Is It (Finally) Time To Anoint Steph Curry The Greatest Shooter In NBA History?

Saturday night the Warriors were trailing the Jazz in the third quarter and all eyes were on Steph Curry. Not because of what he...
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Steve Wilks Hired As Defensive Coordinator At Missouri

Former Arizona Cardinals' head coach, Steve Wilks, has officially been hired as the new defensive coordinator at the University of Missouri. Wilks heads back to...
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Chicago Bears Make History With Hire Of Sean Desai as Defensive Coordinator

While people of color, Black coaches in particular, have had the head coaching door shut in their faces more times than opened, they have...
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Baseball Legend Hank Aaron Passes Away at 86

Today we all mourned as we learned of the passing of Hank Aaron, who died at the age of 86. Aaron was one of the...
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Eric Bieniemy: “Yes, I Want To Be A Head Coach.”

We started 2021 with seven head coaching vacancies in the NFL. As of today, six of the seven have been filled, the only remaining...
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Converse To Honor Legendary All-Black Crispus Attucks H.S. Basketball Team

This spring, Converse will honor the 1954-55 Crispus Attucks High School Basketball team from Indianapolis as part of their "Breaking Down Barriers" collection. This team,...
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On Inauguration Day We Reflect On The Last Four Years of Colin Kaepernick

Inauguration day 2021 brought a sense of calm, civility, excitement, pride, and professionalism that moved us light years away from the embarrassing, toxic, tumultuous,...
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Atlanta Falcons Hire Terry Fontenot As New General Manager

Big news out of the ATL this morning as the Atlanta Falcons announced that they have hired Terry Fontenot as their new General Manager. Fontenot...
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Charles Huff Hired As Marshall’s New Head Football Coach

While the NFL has blanked Black head coaches so far in their recent head coaching hires, college football moved forward. Marshall announced that they hired...
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Kyrie Irving Bought George Floyd’s Family A House

While some are busy ripping Nets' guard Kyrie Irving for being selfish, distant and immature, they fail to understand just how deep pain, suffering...
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NFL Hires Show Ain’t A Damn Thing Changed For Black NFL Coaches

The NFL's head coaching hiring process is proving to be more of the same when it comes to Black NFL coaches. There appears to be...
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