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How Black athletes have championed voting rights

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By Kevin B. Blackistone
| Brookings Institution
On Oct. 10, 1871, in downtown Philadelphia, Octavius Catto, founder and star shortstop of the Black Pythian Base Ball Club, was summoned in his capacity as a National Guardsman to a polling place where his fellow Black citizens were being allowed to vote for the first time.
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Some are cheering the end of the Saudis’ involvement in sports. Here’s why I’m not

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By Kevin B. Blackistone
| Yahoo Sports Verified
Some are cheering the end of the Saudis’ involvement in sports. Here’s why I’m not The LIV Golf tournament is scheduled to tee off its U.S. tour Thursday at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, a week after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — whose oil- and blood-soaked Public Investment Fund created LIV five years ago — announced it would pull out. The Saudis created LIV as a rival to the PGA Tour and reportedly burned at least $5 billion on it, but now they are leaving LIV to fend without their help.
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On this Jackie Robinson Day, reject this lie Major League Baseball tells about itself

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By Kevin B. Blackistone
| Yahoo Sports Verified
One of the first things President Donald Trump did after his second inauguration was invalidate an executive order from former President Joe Biden that prohibited discrimination against transgender people, especially those playing sports. How did the major sports institutions react? They lined up behind Trump’s transphobia. In February 2025, the NCAA banned transgender athletes from women’s sports. Late last month, the Olympics followed suit.
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