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Hearing Robeson, Seeing Kaepernick: The Black Athlete Disappearance

Hearing Robeson, Seeing Kaepernick: The Black Athlete Disappearance By Shana L. Redmond | @ShanaRedmond | with thanks to NewBlackMan (in Exile) Thursday, September 21, 2017. In his recent Bleacher Report Ma..More

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Hearing Robeson, Seeing Kaepernick: The Black Athlete Disappearance	Horse Racing And Its Diversity Downfalls
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F.N.N: My Biafran Story	A Quick Guide to Refugees and Political Asylum
How Technology Has Changed Politics Forever (2 comments)	7 Ways To Save Your Relationship
What Would Immigration In The UK Look Like Under A Labour Government?	If Your Pastor Says 'Racism Isn't A Skin Problem' You Need To Find Another Church
Three Reasons Why Folks Tried to Take Away My Black Card and One Reason They’ll Never Get It	Debt Woes? Read This
What Is Life Like as a Police Officer in Britain?	Digital Unplugging - Five Ways to Pull the Plug
Where is Ollie Harrington When You Need Him?	The 4 Biggest Threats To Motorcyclists
Find Your Power In Connectivity	Top 6 Carnivals for People of African Descent this February
The Later King	President Barack Obama’s Farewell Speech
Road To Recovery: What To Do After A Car Crash	The Unimaginable: How To Deal With The Loss Of A Loved One
Making A Difference: Three Careers That Help You Give Back To Your Community	For the Incomplete Gesture, From a Black Girl Writing With Uncertain Instruments
A Close Brush With Death in Abuja	Doing These Three Things Can Ruin Your Relationship
Making The New Black Man	The Sad Business of Dealing with Will Disputes
Care Homes Are Failing - Who Should Look After Your Loved Ones?	Why Are So Many People Wrongfully Convicted Of Crimes?
Part II. Requiem for My Son’s Innocence	What Happens When Black Crime Rates Aren't "Neutral"?
Help Your Skin and Hair Soft with These Tips	Domestic Violence, Murder and Bresha Meadows
Design A Kitchen That's Perfect For Your Family	Before You Take on Debt, Discover What's Best (1 comment)
“Don’t White Lives Matter?”: at the Intersection of Privilege and Entitlement	America: Here Are Some States Where You Really Don't Want A DWI
We Need to Talk About Tyrone: What to Do If Your Teenager Is Using Drugs	How You Can Reduce The Amount Of Money You Waste Each Week
America: How To Encourage More Black Men To Enrol In Medical School (1 comment)	Common Problems Every Driver Will Face (And Solutions!)
Injuries At Work: Common Questions Answered	Movement for Black Lives Yields New Targets of the State
The Economic Implications Of Lifting Sanctions On Iran	Understanding The Causes Behind A Rise In Birth Defects
What Happens When You Are Charged With A Crime	How To Defend Yourself If You're Charged With A Crime
Why You Should Let Religion Be Your Guiding Light	Learn How To Be A Safer Biker With These Motorcycle Safety Tips
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Hope for 2016 - A World Without Walls	Capitalism Gone Mad
Vodou: Unity of all Things	“We Have Nothing to Lose”: #MovementForBlackLives National Convening
The Charleston Imperative: Why Feminism & Antiracism Must Be Linked	Revisiting Frederick Douglass’ Famous Speech of 1852
Why You Can't Kill the Spirit of Mother Emanuel	“Keep running your mouth…”: The Policing of Black Children
Twisting the “Lessons of History” to Excuse Unjustifiable Violence: The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis	Freddie (Gray)’s Dead
Bloody Sunday and Black Tuesday Have Similar Meaning for Bahamians and Americans	My Hair and Beauty Transition
Congratulations!!! You Are Planning Your Wedding Budget	Do Black Lives Matter to #Black Lives Matter?
Financial Bliss for Newlyweds	Owerri: The End of Innocence
Poor: The Four-Letter Word American Politicians Avoid	At the Visual Crossroads: Blackness and the Matter of Life or Death
Building Partnerships Between Police Officers and the Communities They Serve	The Fire This Time
Chris Powell Takes Over at Huddersfield Town	Dear Civil Rights Leaders: This is not About You!
America: Reparations, Feminism and The Black Experience	Is the Criminalisation of Racism in British Football a Hollow Victory?
Why We Need To Talk About Condoms and Safe Sex to Young People	African Groups Call for the African Union to Respond to Gender and Sexuality Rights Violations
Black British Dating at Some of the Best African Restaurants in London	“Legible Thugs” – AntiBlack Racism is Bigger than Richard Sherman
Pretty Sparkly Things: A Black Girl’s Encounter With America’s Prison Industrial Complex	Queercide: Campaign Against Violence Against Women – Why We Must Document
A Man at His Peak? (with a nod to my first and favorite poet Nadine Turner)	The Traumatic Return of Michael Moses Ward
Feminist Chronicles: Delta Milayo Ndou	NAACP’s Outgoing President on the Power of Shared Vision and Partnership
Haiti: Photo Journalism or Poverty Porn	Is Inequality Shortening Your Life Span?
Nollywood and the Televisual Image of Nigeria	More Than Racism: Ebomaphobia Exposed
Black British Student Creates Interactive Eyeball Security System to Cut Crime	Dear Marriage Equality Advocates: I Can Not Celebrate with You Today
TheSWAGspot: Intimate Public Space to Talk Love, Lessons and Legacy With Men for Men	From Canaan 1, Haiti
No More Excuses?: The Myth of Black Uplift	A Response to A New York Times’ Article, ‘In Nigeria, You're Either Somebody or Nobody’
Cancer: More Than A Word	Cancer: My New Thing
Black Footballers Celebrate the Life of a World War 1 Black British Hero	Sacrificial Love
Haiti: In conversation with Flaurantin Marie Enise	Scar Story: On Beauty
Thoughts on Haiti	Post Super Bowl Blues
Revisiting Haiti	President Barack Hussein Obama’s Second Inaugural Address (Transcript)
Devin Jolicoeur and Police Violence Against Black Men in the United States	So, How Many Sexual Partners Have You Had?
Britain’s Ethnic Minorities Aren’t What You Think	Catwalk Star Charli Fletcher Hails the Rise of the Dark- Skinned Model
What Use is the Oncoming American Presidential Election to the Downtrodden of the World?	Restaurant Review: Goode & Wright
Occupy Guyana and the People’s Parliament	You Better Work!: Professors Talk Style Politics
Rape is Rape is Rape is Rape: It’s Not Date Rape, Statutory Rape, Forcible Rape or Legitimate Rape!	No Women Died: This is not a Women’s Issue!
Social Media Saved My Life!	The John Terry Verdict and Racism Within Our Judicial System
Why America Still Hates LeBron: The Natural, Horatio Alger and the Myth of Hard Work	Keeping Up Appearances: The Myth of the “Inner City”
A Circle of Friends: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke & Jim Brown	On His Way to Harlem: The Whimsical Soul of Gregory Porter
Can We All…Get It Right?: Remembering the Los Angeles Uprising	'No Hoodies Allowed’: The NBA’s Dress Code & the Politics of New Racism
In Conversation with History: Speaking Back to Trayvon	Death Without Sanction or Ceremony
Hurray for Kony 2012 and Africa’s Invisible Children!	Reading Kony 2012 and the Murder of Trayvon Martin
El Negro of Banyoles: An Embodiment of Europe’s Fixation With the Black Body	'LinSanity' and the Blackness of Basketball
Michael Rapaport’s Documentary on 'A Tribe Called Quest' Comes to Britain	Is Obama Enslaving the White Middle Class?
Serena Williams and the Politics of Hate(rs)	Is Kwanzaa Still Important?
On Returning to A Parent’s Final Place of Rest	Performing Herman Cain
The NBA Lockout and the End of an Era	What Occupy Wall Street Has Accomplished in Two Short Months
Race and the Cultural Politics of Tattoos	Amber Cole is My Daughter
Is Nicki Minaj Making Black Women Look Bad?	On Black History Month in Britain
Floyd Mayweather and the Demonization of Black Athletes	If Jay Z Met Fred Hampton
Shut Up and Play!	Lee Jasper on Boris Johnson's Handling of the London Riots
Black Sambo 2.0?	The Tea Party's War on Young Americans
The Return of Solidarity	Our Obsession With Land
What Drives Sports Fans?	Should Caribbean Countries Continue to Execute Murderers?
Dear President Obama, Europe has a Race Problem	We Are Malcolm X!
Diving Into Blue Holes and the Sargasso Sea	Neocolonial Fantasies
'The LeBrons' and a Discourse of Blackness	So What Do You Do, Uche Chukwu?
The Life and Times of Eddie King, Jr.	An Open Letter to Chris Brown
More Than Half of British Women Have Been Victims of Sexist Remarks or Behaviour	If Rape Isn't Rape, What Is?
Budgetary Cuts and Black Britain’s Mental Health	So What Do You Do, Lisa Bent?
Arizona is America!	Story of 2010 - The Big Freeze and the Big Society in Britain
So What do You do, Thomas Walker?	I Heart Feminism
Pink Ribbons for Black Women	Coming of Age: The Dark side of turning 18
Autumn and the Black British Hair	On Black History Month in the UK
On Fashion Diversity in Britain	On Postracial America
How Black Are You?	Yellow Fever: Skin Lightening Cream and the Fear of Invisible Blackness
The Lowdown on Learning Disability in the UK	Where to Honeymoon in Britain and Abroad
Do Women Really Want a New Kind of Black Man?	I Didn't Work This Hard To Get Married!
Black Women Turn to Online Dating to Find Love	Who is Afraid of Michael Eric Dyson?
On Jamaicaness	Black Masculinity and the Performance of Obama-Era Respectability
On Black Majority Rule in the Caribbean	Single, and Dating With Children?
Theatre: Talented Bola Agbaje Offers an Unsettling Piece	More than Asher D From So Solid Crew
Arinze Kene - A Star in the Making	On Being Black and English
The Audacity of 'Precious'	The Oprah Winfrey Legacy
British Dogs of War or International Terrorists?	Is Dizzee Rascal the Most Influential Black Londoner?
Does The BNP Have The Right To Be Heard?	From America to Britain: Why Are Our Youth Killing One Another ?
Are You A Real Jamaican?	Theatre: A Black Leader in a White World
The Cosby Redux	On Sovereignty and Second Homes
We Are All Caster Semenya!	Who’s Afraid of Van Jones?
Students, Shop Safely Online!	Heritage Renewal
Meet The Blythwoods	A World of Illusions
Delighting in That Golden Hour	Theatre: A Patchy Rendition of a Thin Script
The New Black: Out of Africa	The New Black
Shopping For Vintage With Funmi Odulate	Loving Michael!
Falling Into a Racial Trap - Part 2	Should Black American Stations Die?
Why Mother's Day is a Queer Black Left Feminist Thing	Still On Falling Into Racial Traps
The Delicate Art of Facebook Snooping	Trendy Britain!
Britain: How to Protect Victims of Human Trafficking	Do Black Men Hate Black Women?
Africa's Favourite Gumshoe Returns to the Small Screen	History as Choice not Accident
Why Culture Matters	Rihanna/Chris Brown: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (The Remix)
Anansi and the Magic Mirror	The Financial Pros and Cons of Living in Britain
Second Thoughts On Obama’s Inauguration	Recession-Proof Your Shopping List and Save!
Queen Bees	Christmas and the Single Dad
The Cars For 2009!	The Cars For 2009!
Obama May Have Won, But My Heart Belongs to Jamaica	Theatre: The Kids Are Not Alright
Theatre: When A Great Playwright Bombs	Lewis Hamilton Wins the Last Tango in São Paulo!
Binge Britain: Social Drinking and Weekend Boozing	Theatre: Ray Davies Gets Britain Dancing
Britain, America, Canada, Home is Always Best!	To The Chocolate Granola Gurl
The New Normal - High Prices Are Here To Stay	Britain: Raising Black Children
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Theatre: Inside Black Britain	The Topsy-Turvy World Of Formula One
Can A Scam E-mail Lead to Romance?	Why Do We Have Hang-ups About Sex In Films?
UK Immigration: Blacks And Browns Not Wanted	Theatre: A Divided Black Britain
Apples & Snakes: 25 Years of a British Pioneer	Is God Dead?
The Young and Peer Pressure	Theatre: On Britain's Busiest Street
The Complexities Of The Casual Date	The London Barbican Explores Multiculturalism
Hip Hop In Theatreland	Theatre: Immigration, Immigration, Immigration!
Theatre: On Britishness	Black Men, White Women: The Politics Of Race In America
On Australia's Aboriginals	Too Hot In Paradise
War And Peace:A Star Playwright Talks About His Experience In Theatreland	Theatre: The British-African Way Of Life
Theatre: Benjamin Zephaniah Talks Black British Men’s Prostate	Theatre: A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Theatre: The Queen Of Jazz And The Platinum Blonde	Hip Hop's Still Invisible Women
Film: In The Begining, There's The Blues	Theatre: The Real Africa in London
The Magic of Afrika! Afrika!	What If She Won't Give It Up?
Technology is the Root of All Evil	In Search of the Ultimate High!
Malorie Blackman's Award-Winning Children Story Comes To The Stage	How Young People Can Gain From Out Of School Hours Activities
Wild Thing!	Why Are Black Boys Failing in Britain?
A Love Letter From a Black Father to His Daughter	Not Just Another Caribbean Cookbook
A World Of Good With Desmond Tutu	Theatre: No Ordinary Joe
The King is Back!	Is This Supreme Court Judge the Most Dangerous Black Man in America?
I Luv U and Other Things You Should Never Send in a Text Message	The First Nigerian Social Night in Birmingham and the Midlands
Omissions in Black History Month in Britain	Gays in the Pulpit
Legalise Them	Theatre: A Slavery Journey
The Rise of the Griot	Pull Up Your Pants, Boy!
The Rise of the Griot	To Be Black and Female in America
Adoption, Masculinity and the New Black Man	London's Notting Hill Carnival in Colour
A Cheeky Dose of Ganja	Adoption, Masculinity and the New Black Man
Our Kids Are Not Alright	Some Useful Tips That Will Help You Lose Weight
Still on Images of Savages	Stephane Dunn on Tamara Dobson
Is Love Real or a Human Construct?	A Young Man's Love Affair With Baseball
The Business of God	Film Review: A Real Feel Good Movie
Pole Star	A Car Rejuvenated
Our New Car Columnist on a Great Car Engine and its Enduring Legacy	The Fallacy of Race
Being Oprah's Cousin	White, High Yellow, Brown or Dusty Black: Why Race Matters
Hail to the British Summertime	Do White Audiences Want to see a Black Man Sleep with a White Woman?
We Love These Ladies	How to Study at a Top University for Free
Raising Awareness of Tuberculosis	The Fallacy of Slavery Abolition Commemorations
How a Rastaman Captured Our Taste Buds	The Shadow of Slavery on Contemporary Art and Design
Truth, Damn Lies and Wikipedia	The Annals of Black-On-Black Violence
Sokari Ekine On Blood Diamond	Dreamgirls: The Greatest Song Ever Filmed
Is There Really A Maternal Instinct?	For Brothers Only: Resolve To Get In Gear This Year!
Are You Alive Or Just Existing?	Why Dreamgirls Is An Instant Hit
The New Black Magazine's Article of the Year: Africans and the European Soul	Why You Should Try a Pig's Head
Can Britain's Ethnic Minorities Feel at Ease with the Conservative Party?	Hypermasculinity and the Black Male
The Myth of the Strong Black Women	The British Prime Minister on the Horror of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Profile: Johnson Beharry	Race, Class and the Tyranny of Worldviews
Ten Keys To Health For Black Men	Australia's Endangered Black People (Part 2)
So You Want to be a Writer? Think Again or go for Journalism	Of Fairytales and Propaganda
Desmond Tutu on Darfur: A Blind Eye to Genocide	On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's brilliant second novel
Poem: War Before my children	Theatre: Jamaica's sex tourism in Nottingham, England
On slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean	Susana Baca: The queen of Afro-Peruvian music
Face off: Hotel Rwanda vs. Shooting Dogs	Immigration: How Black America is focusing on the wrong issue
Haiti gets another chance	The Cosby Show: Immortalized
So You Say I "Talk White"	Memoir of an illegal immigrant: Part 1
On Blacks and university education	How to pay for your MBA education
Why Mathematics Must come before MTV Base	Tupac Shakur In The Classroom
On Cancer Victims And Those Who Are Left Behind	Wanting to Exhale: Black And Smoking
Podcast: Byllye Avery's Words Of Inspiration For Black Women	The Nature of Talent And The Magic Of Literature
An Expert's Dilemma	Looking After Your Hump - Your Lovely Lady Lump!
Nigeria: In Search of PhDs	A Different But Laudable Black History
Keeping it Real and Acting White	Britain: Educating Black Boys
Understanding Hurricanes	The Explainer on Food Crisis