A Divided America: Black Politics and the Struggle for Justice in Sports

Featuring Howard Bryant, Amira Rose Davis, and Randy Roberts

Black athletes raising their voices and taking a knee against injustice are under attack by Trump’s White House, commentators, coaches, and many fellow Americans. Three writers will examine the role Black male and female athletes have played in the long struggle against racism and injustice and the barriers and criticism they have faced for their politics. Professor Randy Roberts will discuss Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. Professor Amira Rose Davis will preview her forthcoming book, “Can’t Eat a Medal”: The Lives and Labors of Black Women Athletes in the Age of Jim Crow. And, ESPN’s Howard Bryant will discuss The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided America and the Politics of Patriotism.

“Sights Unseen: Black Women Athletes and the (in)Visibility of Political Engagement”

At the Center for Southern Studies 

Panel: Contemporary Black Memoir: Explorations of the Self in Pieces, Fragments and Wholes

Panelist. "The Possibilities of American Literary and Cultural Criticism.”

Political Intrigue, Celebration Capitalism, and Spotlight on Korea

A Roundtable on the Winter Olympics

Speaking with:

Jules Boykoff, Pacific University, Professor; Author of Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

Minky Worden, Human Rights Watch; Director of Global Initiatives

Moderated by Stefanie Ehmsen, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, Co-director

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 Talk: Black Bodies, Global Games: Sports and the Pan-African Diaspora in the Era of Decolonization

Baylor University, Waco TX

Presenting “A View from the Sidelines: Black Women Sportswriters in the Interwar Era,”  on the panel “In Their Own Words: Global Understandings of Modern Womanhood in the mid-Twentieth Century Women’s Press