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Gotta love that when I was offline yesterday folks were tagging me and texting me about the Bucks and Brewers strikes, the WNBA, Naomi Osaka, and LeBron. Thanks everyone. When I wrote my book on Black celeb activism in 2014, I hoped greater solidarity like this would come.
Then I wrote about LeBron and Dwayne Wade's advocacy for Trayvon Martin. I wrote about how Black women athletes led and protested at the 1968 Olympics alongside Smith and Carlos but were erased by the media - that dynamic is changing but not enough: https://bookshop.org/books/black-celebrity-racial-politics-and-the-press-framing-dissent/9781138067189
For @LAReviewofBooks a couple years ago I wrote about how denunciations of Kap sounded exactly like those faced by a range of Black celeb dissenters of the past. Yet, I'd now add that both the appropriation and reclamation has happened far more quickly... https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/larb-ball-nfl-roundtable/
For those looking for teaching content here is the sports politics syllabus I contributed to alongside @drdavidjleonard @loumoore12 @BeckyGMartinez @bijancbayne https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2016/09/colinkaepernicksyllabus.html It includes some of my favs like @jessicawluther @DrTRunstedtler & @EdgeofSports
