27 janvier 2021
The Editors, « Done Playing Games: Black Athletes' Political Activism », HCA Graduate Blog, ID : 10670/1.adu3ao
By Sebastian Mayer In the wake of renewed protests surrounding the movement for Black Lives, accompanied by the COVID-19 pandemic, one group of actors assumed a particularly central role: Black professional athletes. What began with individual instances of activism, such as Colin Kaepernick taking a knee in 2016, culminated in an athlete boycott of nearly all American sports in late August 2020. Throughout the past decade, Black athletes increasingly found themselves at the center of the stru...