The WNBA has only three Black head coaches, a decline from two seasons ago, with Noelle Quinn, Tanisha Wright, and Teresa Weatherspoon leading the charge.
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport
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MLB’s racial, gender hiring earn mediocre grades
‘Baseball has put a lot of money and effort into trying to increase the popularity at the youth level, but the numbers are still plummeting.’
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Black-White grad gap shrinks
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.
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A changeless ‘dark cloud’ hangs over sports media
Racial and gender diversity remain stuck on stupid First of a two-part column The 2018 Associated Press Sports Editors Racial and Gender Report Card sadly shows little progress for Blacks in key positions over the last three years. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) earlier this month published its sixth report card […]
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Introducing a new college bowl game: the Disparity Bowl
It’s that time of year in the waning days of the college football season when talk of coaches being fired and hired, the fairness or unfairness of the current four-team playoff system, and other such subjects are oft-discussed. But buried under such talk is the ever-existing graduation-rate gap between Division I Black and White football […]
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Diversity hiring gains remain few and far between
College sport earns an average grade for racial and gender hiring, says the latest report card by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES). “College sport…faced further challenges…as it experienced decreases in both gender and racial hiring,” wrote TIDES Director Richard Lapchick in the report’s executive summary released April 6. The combined score […]
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College sports leadership like corporate America — mostly White
Those who run college sports are still “overwhelmingly” White and male. Such is the conclusion of the latest report by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) on key leadership positions at Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools and conferences. There remains a “consistent underrepresentation” of Blacks, other people of color and women. The […]