Major League Baseball is a conservative institution. It speaks volumes that it moved the All-Star Game from Brian Kemp’s Georgia...Baseball needed to make this move. It had to finally do more than talk a good game.
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His career and example stand in drastic contrast to the lesser men who were not inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame just after Aaron’s death.
We’re affected by bias and racism, just like everyone else. Musicians sing and write about social movements all the time. Actors voice their opinions. Yet when it comes to athletes, we are often met with criticism for expressing our opinions.
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Jacob Blake’s shooting was the last straw for many athletes. Yesterday professional basketball teams threw their weight behind the movement for Black lives starting with the Milwaukee Bucks. Declining to show up for their game-they launched a strike
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