by admin | Mar 28, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Moments after her team lost its second-round game Monday in the NCAA tournament, Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts revealed her players had experienced “racial hate crimes” last week on its first night at the tournament. Utah players as well as band members...
by admin | May 30, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Racism directed at athletes is getting worse, and software designed to protect them from abuse has little impact, former US Open champion Sloane Stephens said on Monday. Stephens, speaking after her straight-sets victory over Karolina Pliskova in the French Open first...
by admin | Jun 10, 2022 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
“If I said I wasn’t nervous I’d be lying,” Anyika Onuora suggests with a little smile in the front room of her mother’s house in Liverpool. We have known each other since I first interviewed Onuora in April 2017 and in the intervening years she has confidentially told...
by admin | Nov 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Olympic gold medalist Suni Lee said she experienced a racist attack recently when she was waiting for an Uber with a group of friends who are also of Asian descent. Lee, 18, who was the first Asian American woman to win Olympic gold in the women’s gymnastics...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In early March, I talked with a pair of researchers at the University of Southern California who had recently published a study — funded by the Tony Hawk Foundation — showing how skateboarding helps build resilience among young skaters, and helps them form communities...
by admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The coronavirus slowed the season for the Norman girls basketball team, but once the team qualified for the state tournament, there was no stopping them, not even when a broadcaster’s racist comments were caught on a hot mic as they knelt during the national anthem...
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