basketball

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/21/2023
  

  Historian's Book on 1970s NBA Shows Racial Politics around Basketball Have Always Been Ugly

  by Jay Caspian Kang

  The decade saw Black players become dominant in the league and assert their rights as skilled workers. Owners pushed back through the media, smearing the players as entitled drug abusers, as historian Theresa Runstedtler's new book explains. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/6/2023
  

  The NBA Embraced Blackness in the 1970s—Moral Panic Ensued

  Theresa Runstedtler looks at the NBA's key transitional decade as a time when Black players didn't simply change the style of play but demanded fair treatment for the value created by their skilled labor, following the ethos of civil rights and Black Power. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/12/2023
  

  Why Won't Her College Honor "Queen of Basketball" by Renaming its Arena?

  Luisa Harris didn't just lead the Delta State Lady Statesmen to three consecutive championships in the early 1970s. She helped integrate the basketball program and the college. Is that the reason why her name and image are so conspicuously absent today? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/31/2022
  

  What Made Bill Russell a Hero

  Sportswriter Jemele Hill writes that Russell was a model for later activist athletes because he rejected silence and sought to build solidarity with others. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/1/2022
  

  Bill Russell's Greatness Was Unfathomable

  by Jack Hamilton

  "Bill Russell wasn’t just everything we should want out of people who play sports; he was everything we should want out of public figures, an absurdly gifted human being who understood there was a world outside those gifts and who set himself to help change it."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/1/2022
  

  What Bill Russell's Troubled Relationship with Boston Tells Us about Racism

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  Russell always insisted on exposing the extent of prejudice and discrimination, and refused to settle for acclaim as an athlete as a substitute for respect as a person. 

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• 7/3/2022
  

  Excerpt: INAUGURAL BALLERS: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team

  by Andrew Maraniss

  “Win this game,” Billie Moore told her team, “and it will change women’s sports in this country for the next twenty-five years.”

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/27/2021
  

  How the Budding USA-France Basketball Rivalry Developed

  by Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

  "Basketball diplomacy at the Olympics exposes the hidden ties that bind the United States and France together."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/9/2020
  

  The Players’ Revolt Against Racism, Inequality, and Police Terror

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The radicalization of young Black professional athletes is a stunning development in this unfolding, raucous movement, one that demonstrates the sheer scale of racial inequality and a deep need to do something about it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/1/2020
  

  John Thompson Led Black America’s Basketball Team

  Today's racial justice activism by prominent Black athletes has roots in the influence of the late Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. 

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• SOURCE: Age of Revolutions
  8/17/2020
  

  Liberté, Equality, #ICantBreathe! Teaching the Age of Revolutions Using the NBA’s 2020 Summer Restart

  by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

  The slogans NBA players are wearing on their jerseys can help lead students to understand the objectives of 18th century revolution and the incompleteness of attempts to secure the rights and dignity of all humanity.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  “The Last Dance” is the ‘Presidential Historian’ of Documentaries

  by Jason Steinhauer

  Viewers have embraced the ESPN Documentary "The Last Dance" as an escape and the best sports "fix" around. But its framing of leadership reflects a serious issue: the limits of how American media presents history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/10/2020
  

  Ivy League Cancels Basketball Tournaments Amid Coronavirus Concerns

  The NCAA, which continues to prepare for its signature men’s and women’s tournaments, made clear that its recommendations have not changed, despite the Ivy League’s decision.

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• 3-26-18
  

  March Madness and the Lengths People Have Been Willing to Go to Try to Reduce Uncertainty

  by Chad Carlson

  As this historian of the sport shows, it’s an old story.

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• 3-26-18
  

  When Mississippi Basketball Was Integrated. (Sort of.)

  by Luther Spoehr

  It was in 1963. And for the first time the all-white Bulldogs of Mississippi State agreed to play an out-of-state team including black players.

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• 12-14-14
  

  The Black Basketball Trailblazer Who Insisted on an Education

  by Andrew Maraniss

  “He wasn’t going to trade one plantation for another.”

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• 6-4-14
  

  Review of Dennis Gildea's "Hoop Crazy: The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton"

  by Luther Spoehr

  A real-life coach and a fictional athlete, forever linked.