Baseball and Social Change. You should be able to do both. I tweeted about midway through tonight’s @Orioles baseball game: “I lose abt 5-10 Twitter followers every #Orioles game.” In addition to being an educator, nonprofit manager, and social justice advocate, I also am a baseball fan. I am passionate about being each of those […]
Last month I moved into a new position managing a nonprofit baseball community organization. A lot of the creation for this new project has been several years in the making: From research, design, and implement of racial justice and diversity programs for college students—many of these have touched in the past on the intersections between […]
Will Leitch at Sports on Earth says sports are not important. That sports don’t matter. “People who work in sports like to consider sports somehow cleansing in times like this. But I think they’re just saying that so they feel better about working in a field that doesn’t really matter or change the world.” But […]
In a recent ESPN piece, Paul Lukas, “sports’ only full-time uniform reporter,” refers to the issue of Native American imagery in sports as an issue of the appropriation of intellectual property rights: “I don’t think we have the right to use images of headdresses, tomahawks, tribe names, and so on. It’s not a question of […]
