While countless Americans bemoaned their busted brackets on the road to the Final Four that winds up here in Minneapolis next week, two elephant-in-the-room issues still get overlooked annually: The players still don’t get a dime of the millions they generate, and the graduation disparity gaps between Black and White male and female basketball players still exist.
Richard Lapchick
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A call for action to force more diversity in college sport leadership
The 2018 College Sport RGRC moreover shows that Whites hold over 85 percent of the 395 campus leadership positions, and White men hold 73 percent of the 130 presidents.
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Sport as a vehicle for social change
Conclusion of a two-part column Dr. Richard Lapchick’s wide, wide worldly circle of friends includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was named Lew Alcindor when they met as high schoolers at a summer basketball camp. A couple of decades later, Nelson Mandela personally invited him to his South African presidential inauguration. “I was lucky to grow up […]
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‘Racial conscience of sport’ reflects on his activism
Origins of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport First of a two-part column For virtually his entire life, Dr. Richard Lapchick has been fighting for social change. He has the battle scars to prove it. While working late in his office in February 1978, after a successful effort in leading a boycott campaign against […]