Sentences with phrase «only black athlete»

The first and only black athlete on the U.S. women's water polo team, goalie Ashleigh Johnson continues to pursue gold after the team beat Brazil, landing them in the semifinals.

Not exact matches

Year in, year out, moreover, the popular heroes of our culture — athletes, musicians, entertainers, and film stars, the aristocracy of talent adored, emulated, and worshipped as only royalties were in the past — are now significantly black as well.

Trice is the only black player on the Iowa State football team, the first black varsity athlete at Iowa State College (as Iowa State University was then known) one of only a few black football players in the country at the time playing against white opponents.

British Athletics performance director Neil Black said: «Greg is one of only a few British athletes to complete the «Grand Slam» of medals, but that won't make missing London any easier.

Muguruza was not the only elite athlete to walk and pose on the red carpet as Vonn in her gothic black lace dress, with cut - outs at the knee and a tasselled hem raised eyebrows.

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.

Ezra Edelman's five - part documentary film O.J.: Made in America explores two parallel historical narratives: 1) The story of post-Watts race relations in Los Angeles, specifically the tensions between the LAPD and the black community; and 2) the story of a preternaturally talented black athlete who sought to shed his racial identity to achieve «white» success, only for him to reclaim it at a crucial moment.

They come in with misconceptions that as a young black man, they can only make it as either a musician or an athlete, and that they can't succeed in college — or have never even considered going to college.

The athlete, we discover, is relegated to dead - end remedial courses and is allowed to persist in his delusion that his athletic prowess will win him a full ride through college; his experience prompts Maran to explore in some detail how academic tracking and other more subtle differences in teachers» expectations contribute to a situation where 60 percent of white Berkeley High graduates attend a four - year college, while only 14 percent of black students earn enough credits to do so.