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…
This is heartbreaking and I'm glad he shared it. It feels like when it comes to gun violence we go from breaking news to "the community is coming together and healing" so quickly. Meanwhile every mass shooting leaves so many people absolutely destroyed forever https://twitter.com/BCross052422/status/1618633632788402176
Today is not a good day. I can't stop crying. I hurt so fucking bad. I try so damn hard to not fall apart but every day it gets harder. I push my feelings down and put on a mask. I'm not just the pissed off dad. I'm the broken dad. The dad that is in excruciating pain because
Nick Fuentes, Nazi-loving insurrectionist, has been allowed back on Twitter, giving him a big megaphone.
He's the latest fascist @elonmusk has reinstated. Fuentes, currently advising Ye's antisemitic prez campaign, has called Hitler "really fucking cool" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nick-fuentes-twitter-white-supremacist-ye_n_63cff1b9e4b0c8e3fc79f0ac?faq
