Sentences with phrase «about black athletes»

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How refreshing, after Charles Barkley's narcissistic posturing a few issues ago, to read of Brown's obviously genuine dedication to the plight of inner - city black youth and his lamentations that today's megarich black athletes show so little real interest in doing anything about it.

Or he can sprawl on his chaise longue and read; he just finished a book about Captain Kidd and lately has been engrossed in Arthur Ashe's A Hard Road to Glory, a three - volume history of the black athlete in America.

Calling for a boycott for the black athletes who've made it their job to speak fearlessly about racial injustice isn't the the job of the presidency.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

His longing pre-fight ode to peanut butter - chocolate ice cream — «You can get it at Wal - Mart,» he deadpans — is, in its way, as revealing about the suffering athlete as anything in Black Swan, not to snark too much on Darren Aronofsky, whose recent films till similar ground.

He now finds himself playing in the minor league baseball circuit which is about the only place black athletes could play the sport on a professional level.

He'll be featured alongside Stephan James, Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, Amanda Crew and Carice van Houten in the movie about «Jesse Owens «quest to become one of the greatest track and field athletes, defying the odds of being a black athlete competing at the advent of Adolf Hitler «s reign as Germany's leader trying to create a perfect Aryan race for the country.»

Even a cursory look at Black History can help people understand the role that athletes have played to call out oppression and bring about social change.

At the film festival in Sydney I saw a documentary about an Australian athlete, Peter Norman, who was on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos when they gave the Black Power salute.