How Sway? RG3 Just Got Signed to the Baltimore Ravens and Colin Kaepernick Still Doesn’t Have a Job?
Colin Kaepernick needs to walk into the National Football League’s hearings on whether or not team owners colluded…
In 2005, Kanye West articulated the perceived inevitability of successful black men leaving black women for white…
Houston Texans owner Bob McNair has been adamant about his feelings regarding black players. McNair has no problem…
Johnny Manziel would prefer that you not compare his attempts to return to the game of football with those of Colin…
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Unless O.J. Simpson wants to talk about running a football in the ’70s, or how he handled himself in prison, or how…
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The Super Bowl may have been noticeably devoid of on-field protests, but the multiple “head injuries” within the…
Because I decided long ago not to watch the NFL this season, not watching the Super Bowl was an easy, if annoying,…
The accounting has been done—at least in part—and unsurprisingly, ratings were down for Super Bowl LII, in which…
If you know like I know, bow your heads.
Football is still America’s most popular sport. And the NFL our biggest and most popular sports league. But while…
Other than keeping the few black and brown workers at KFC busy filling his order for a bucket of chicken and…
With everything—and everyone—we lost in this past year, there were some big wins. Black women showed up and showed…
This year, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root is highlighting one person from the community who exemplifies the…
The gig is up, the NFL is trash and they can blame the drop in ratings on whatever they’d like, but the reality is…
2017 has been, how do I put this succinctly, a fucking shit year.
Perhaps a black man (or men) owning an NFL team may soon be a reality. Golden State Warrior Steph Curry recently…
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Colin Kaepernick’s interest in purchasing the Carolina Panthers appears to be far more…
Updated Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, 11:21 a.m. EST: Colin Kaepernick wants in on Diddy’s scheme to buy the Carolina…
You might remember Alyssa Parker. She’s the Buena Vista University cheerleader who took a stand for racial injustice…