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NFL Commissioner now encourages teams to sign Kaepernick
June 16, 2020Roger Goodell would like to see Colin Kaepernick back in the NFL this season. And, quite honestly, it took too damn long, and cost too many Black lives, to get to this point.
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Two knees: One a call for change, the other a murder weapon
June 2, 2020Which knee do we stand behind: Kaepernick’s? Or Chauvin’s? Which has the NFL stood behind?
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Team owners vote through changes to boost NFL diversity
May 20, 2020Changes designed to enhance opportunities for minorities to get executive, head coaching, and coordinator positions were passed Tuesday by NFL owners.
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NFL’s Rooney Rule to be amended to require more hiring diversity
May 19, 2020“What I think has happened is people have said, `Let me interview a minority candidate to satisfy the rule, and then I can get on with this hiring process or hire who I want to,” said...
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Bobby Mitchell, first Black player for Washington, dies at 84
April 6, 2020Mitchell split his career with the Cleveland Browns and Washington and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983.
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