activist athletes

The basketball great is now better known for his tie-dye and enthusiastic sports commentary, but in the 1970s, he was a polarizing anti-government activist.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

As baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s breaking the color line, it’s worth remembering a man at odds with his own myth.

Before Colin Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’

For his talents on the diamond and his determination off of it, Curt Flood deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

The long history of the international olympic committee's war on athletes' free expression.

His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.

Will coronavirus prompt the house of cards of college athletics to come tumbling down?

Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.

Louis Moore discusses Bill Bruton and the erasure of his activism towards integration in Major League Baseball.

Wilma Rudolph won three Olympic golds and was among the first athletes to use her celebrity to fight for civil rights.

The founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights talks about the iconic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the winners’ podium in 1968.

Colin Kaepernick continues a long tradition of athletes using their celebrity to protest America's racial inequality.

When three Padres pitchers joined the John Birch Society in 1984, the sports world was challenged by a different kind of political activism.

A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.

Remembering the black-fisted silent protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.

Here's what he thinks about national anthem protests.

The autobiography of NBA star Craig Hodges contains lessons for the pro athletes who are speaking up today.

Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.

On inclusion of African American athletes in college sports.