Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our series…
Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on sports,…
Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our series…
Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. Photo: Emblem in the main foyer at…
More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene…
Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen investigates in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies…
I just got a vaccine appointment with the Chickasaw Nation, who is now vaccinating any educator in OK. I am so overwhelmed with the historical weight of a removed Native nation providing this settler with a life-saving vaccine.
James T Green's whole piece is worth reading but the anecdote at the end is devastating.
What is storytelling without empathy? What is storytelling if you don't investigate the power dynamics?
http://jamestgreen.com/thoughts/115
The other day we were watching old powwow footage from just a few years ago and it was alarming to see all the people who were there who have since passed on.
Covid 19 left deep scars on our community.
Please. Stop. Putting. People. Who. Are. Still. Lying. About. The. Election. On. TV.
We are so tired y'all. https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1365285550224244736
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen current and former Amazon corporate employees told @delrey that they saw a pattern of systemic racial bias at the company, which affected Black employees’ career growth and personal lives. https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/26/22297554/bias-disrespect-and-demotions-black-employees-say-amazon-has-a-race-problem?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
