Athletic Protests
Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN and author of The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, explores racial protest in the sports industry.
Recommended Reading
Howard Bryant recommends reading or watching the following if you would like to know more:
Howard Bryant, The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
Documentary (HBO): Exterminate All the Brutes
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Thursday, May 30, 2024 12:00 pm
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference?
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of ‘not racist.’
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Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN and author of The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, explores racial protest in the sports industry.
Howard Bryant has worked as reporter for the Washington Post and the Boston Herald, and is a prolific baseball writer on a variety of topics affecting the game. He also contributes to ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and ESPN Radio.
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MoreMeet the Speaker: Howard Bryant
Howard Bryant joined ESPN in August 2007 as a senior writer of, weekly columns for ESPN.com. He also contributes to ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and ESPN Radio.
Bryant arrived at ESPN following two years as a reporter for the Washington Post from 2005 – 2007, where he covered general sports topics and the Washington Redskins. He served as the Boston columnist for the Boston Herald from 2002 – 2005 and a reporter for the Bergen Record in Hackensack, N.J. from 2001 – 2002. Bryant has also reported for the San Jose Mercury News, covering the Oakland A’s (1995 – 2001) and the Oakland Tribune (1991 – 1995).
Bryant is a prolific baseball writer on a variety of topics affecting the game. His books include Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball (Viking 2005) and Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston (Routledge 2002), for which he won the Casey Award for best baseball book and was named SABR Seymour Medal finalist. He has also contributed to The Dodgers (2005), The Good City (2004), Yankees Century (2002), Red Sox Century (2000), and Thinking Black (1995). His next book, Henry Aaron: A Biography (Pantheon) will be available in stores in 2009. For his coverage of Game 7 of the 2001 World Series in which the Diamondbacks defeated the Yankees, he won the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) award for best game story.
Bryant was graduated from Temple University in 1991. The Boston resident received his masters degree from San Francisco State University in 1993.