Black voices in sports radio are disappearing from national airwaves as veteran broadcasters Mark Gray and Kevin Stanfield reflect on decades of exclusion and the platforms keeping Black sports talk alive today.
Kevin Stanfield
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Black sports radio hosts mostly former athletes — not so for Whites
Sports radio, whether locally or nationally, remains the last holdout in media diversity. Since its advent in the 1980s, sports radio voices over the years have been mainly White, programmed by Whites, seemingly only for White listeners. If by chance a Black host is heard, typically that person was a former pro athlete as opposed […]