The nation’s soccer team left the field with five minutes remaining in the game after Jordan Torunarigha was targeted Germany’s Olympic soccer team walked off the field during a preparation match for the Tokyo Games on Saturday in response to alleged racist abuse from an opposing Honduras player toward German defender Jordan Torunarigha. The players…
The Olympian says he wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols Brock Lesnar and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson after the Games Gable Steveson loves to put on a show — during and after his biggest matches. Moments after he won at the U.S. Olympic trials at 125 kilograms to qualify for the Tokyo…
Things have quieted in the island nation after the government responded with some aid, but the situation remains uncertain in the island nation Less than a week after a rare series of anti-government protests were broken up by police and government sympathizers, and elicited self-criticism from President Miguel Díaz-Canel, things appear calm in Cuba. But…
Events are taking place from Atlanta to California to honor John Lewis’ legacy Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of civil rights icon and longtime Congressman John Lewis. People and organizations across the country are paying tribute to and taking action in the name of Lewis. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that several candlelit…
Tennis star Naomi Osaka has always been vocal about her pride for both her Haitian and Japanese heritages, and she’s lived in the United States since she was three, so when it came time to pick a country to represent in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, fans might have assumed any of those nations was fair…
Subpoena seeks info from head coach Urban Meyer and general manager Trent Baalke about the Jacksonville Jaguars’ move to hire and fire Chris Doyle The Jacksonville Jaguars said Wednesday that coach Urban Meyer and general manager Trent Baalke were subpoenaed as part of a lawsuit filed by lawyers for Black players suing former Iowa strength…
The person is identified simply as a “games-concerned personnel” The first resident of the Olympic Village has tested positive for COVID-19, Tokyo Olympic organizers said on Saturday. Officials said it was not an athlete with the Games opening in just under a week on July 23. Tokyo officials including Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the…
“State law currently prevents us from changing those names, and we will follow the law,” interim university president Harris Pastides says The University of South Carolina president has indicated he does not plan to ask the Legislature for permission to change the names of nearly a dozen campus buildings that a special committee says honors…
Gloria Richardson was the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside the Deep South Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, has died….
Source: Bill Clark / Getty In the one year since the voting rights icon John Lewis died on July 17, 2020, the efforts to undermine Americans’ ability to cast ballots in fair and equal elections have been nothing short of dizzying. From the wave of Republican-led restrictive election laws cropping up across the country to…
