What’s different about recent athlete protests?
Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 10:11
in Psychology & Sociology
There’s nothing new about political protest in sports, but the recent athlete-led game boycotts or strikes following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, seemed to set a new standard. Historian Adrian Burgos Jr. specializes in the history of minority participation in sports as a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He’s written extensively on the […]