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Kenny “The Jet” Smith walked off the set of Inside the NBA Wednesday to show solidarity with the players who decided to boycott tonight’s slate of games in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake. “I think the biggest thing now, as a Black man, as a former player, I think it’s best for me to support […]
The Milwaukee Bucks have started a movement. One day after Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet and Norm Powell revealed that the team was considering a boycott of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Boston Celtics on Thursday in wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Bucks decided to not show up for warmups prior to Game […]
Hundreds of protestors took the Louisville streets Tuesday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed by police more than five months ago. The protest marked the conclusion of “BreonnaCon,” a four-day “community convention that aimed to raise more awareness about Taylor’s case and other issues facing Louisville. The event was put together by social […]
Reiterating a theme that he previously touched on this offseason, Roger Goodell says that he wished the NFL had listened to Colin Kaepernick earlie, when the now-ex-quarterback was kneeling in protest back in 2016. Goodell’s most recent comments on this subject came up while talking to former NFL player Emmanuel Acho for Acho’s video series, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man. […]
On Saturday, Drew Brees delivered an opening statement to media to address comments he made back on June 3 that made headlines for weeks after. “I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country,” Brees said at the time after being asked about players kneeling in protest during the national anthem. […]
Apparently, there are people who still believe that a person exercising the constitutional rights bestowed on them by the First Amendment is unpatriotic. Seasoned NFL coach, Mike Ditka, made it clear that he’s one of those people when he expressed his disdain for National Anthem protests in the NFL. During a conversation with TMZ, Ditka explained […]
