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NASCAR’s Rajah Caruth gives back to his hometown

   Atlanta-born NASCAR driver Rajah Caruth returned to his roots this week, visiting the Jesse Draper Boys and Girls Club to speak to middle schoolers about his professional journey in motorsports and to inspire them with messages centered on perseverance, resilience, and determination. 

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I’m Thankful I Played Before NIL and the Transfer Portal

     Those moments are irreplaceable. Character-building. Life-shaping.  I don’t resent today’s athletes or today’s system. It’s simply different—remarkably different. And while today’s players are benefiting financially in ways we never could, it comes at the cost of something that lasts far longer than any NIL deal.

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Basketball’s original Black pioneer, Bucky Lew, deserves Hall of Fame induction 

  The Pioneers Classic honored the 75th anniversary of Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton and Earl Lloyd breaking the NBA’s color barrier in 1950. The event was a deserving reminder of the historical significance of the aforementioned trio, each a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, Lew’s home state. Still, Lew has not made it there with them. It’s time he receives his rightful induction.  

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And then there were three: The concerning decline of Black NFL head coaches

  So wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in his seminal work “The Soul of Black Folk,” published in 1903. One of the most effectuating figures in the history of this country, Du Bois was a leading intellectual of his time, a social scientist, civil rights activist, and the first Black man to earn a Ph.D from Harvard University. His words to open this piece aptly applies, 123 after he penned them, to the current state of the National Football League.