The main reason the NFL fails in its attempts to engineer better diversity is that the owners are generally horrible at hiring anyone.
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The modern NFL didn’t have a Black head coach until 1989. Here’s his story.
Art Shell was hired by the Los Angeles Raiders long after baseball and basketball teams had been led by African Americans. Then he was fired after a winning season.
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How could they? That’s not a question for the head, but the heart
Systemic racism does dehumanizing things to the souls of those caught in its net, including the five Black police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols.
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Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S.
The Memphis cops charged with murder were Black. What does it matter?
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Elliott Epstein: People like us need a helping hand
These people who can’t afford shelter represent a challenge to the American belief that ours is a prosperous and humane society.
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Attacks on U.S. Jews and gays accelerate as hate speech grows on Twitter
Former employees and online researchers say an increase in physical attacks in the United States tracks with spikes in some categories of hate speech on Twitter, notably antisemitic and anti-gay slurs and rhetoric.
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For Andre and Maria, food is a way to connect with their American-born neighbors
‘People come from all over’ to shop at their grocery store that stocks ingredients needed to make Angolan dishes.
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The impressively weak effort to ‘whatabout’ Biden’s classified documents
You can’t combat an irrational argument with rationality.
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What are classified documents?
As both Biden and Trump face special-counsel investigations, here’s what to know about classified documents.
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Special counsels are intended to be independent – but they aren’t entirely
Special counsels, like those examining Biden’s and Trump’s handling of classified documents, can help administrations avoid the perception of bias, but politics is never fully out of the picture.