Black players

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Fifty years after 14 black football players were kicked off the University of Wyoming football team for seeking to wear armbands to protest racism, eight of them returned to the Laramie campus to commemorate the anniversary as the school takes another step toward reconciliation. University officials planned to unveil a plaque […]

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Fifty years after 14 black football players were kicked off the University of Wyoming football team for seeking to wear armbands to protest racism, eight of them returned to the Laramie campus to commemorate the anniversary as the school takes another step toward reconciliation. University officials planned to unveil a plaque […]

Police officers in Virginia are investigating a video that went viral of middle school football players pinning Black players down and yelling racial slurs at them. A video posted on social media depicting students at Short Pump Middle School simulating sex and shouting racial slurs at Black football players has left parents angry. KSLA news […]

In 1966, Black players took part in the Men’s Division I NCAA Basketball Championship for the first time. Although the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision banned discrimination in public schools, most the of the Southern athletic teams remained all-white. But a pioneering team was on the brink of changing the unwritten rules of […]