What’s different about recent athlete protests?
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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 […]