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Opinion | What #NotYourMascot owes #BLM

Native American activism laid the groundwork for the Washington Football Team’s name change, but it wouldn’t have happened without Black Lives Matter This article was originally published in Pollen Nation Magazine and is republished here as part of a pa ...

28 Jul 2020 - Jacqueline Keeler
Street Roots vendors remember Kobe Bryant

Their reactions to the death of the basketball superstar At any given moment, one could enter into the Street Roots doorway on Northwest Davis Street and hear an intense sports debate brewing among Street Roots vendors, staff and volunteers. Often, the co ...

31 Jan 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
Athletics Director Valerie Cleary stands out at Portland State

While there are barriers for women of color in her field, she says, there are also advantages As Portland State University Athletics Director Valerie Cleary paced her way into the nearly 2-year-old Viking Pavilion, she had already tackled a couple of her ...

24 Jan 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
Professional athletes are opening up about their mental health

COMMENTARY | And that’s a very good thing The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa, taking questions after collecting a career achievement award from the Association for Women in Sports Media. I ...

19 Jul 2019 - John Affleck
Jeremy Ebobisse is as expressive off the field as on it

The Portland Timbers forward talks to Street Roots about how he uses his platform to advocate for social justice These days, with increasing frequency, sports and politics are destined to collide. A case in point is U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) reaching ...

31 May 2019 - DeVon Pouncey
Oregon sexual assault survivor is setting the expectation for college athletes

Brenda Tracy is working to combat rape culture in sports The president. The Supreme Court. Hollywood. Journalism. Restaurants. Comedy. No aspect of American life has been untouched by sexual assault, sexual harassment and #MeToo, including the world of co ...

2 Nov 2018 - Jason Cohen
Street soccer: More than just a game

The World Cup is one for the record books, but a different kind of soccer tournament continues to score big for the men and women who battle poverty and homelessness to take the pitch Under the soft sun of a Seattle spring day, a group of roughly two doze ...

20 Jul 2018 - Ashley Archibald
Make room for the broom

The sport of quidditch has evolved beyond recognition from its fantastical beginnings in the Harry Potter books, but J.K. Rowling’s core message of acceptance and tolerance remains I have a broom handle between my legs, which I’m struggling not to drop wh ...

18 May 2018 - Gary Ryan
Etan Thomas and the intersection between athletes, activism

The former NBA player talks to Street Roots about activism in sports; his new book, ‘We Matter’; and his interviews with families of unarmed victims The 2018 NBA postseason is in full swing. This is the platform that has created historic basketball moment ...

20 Apr 2018 - DeVon Pouncey
Sports, comedy, politics: How Carl Wolfson makes sense of it all

His memoir, 'Slide!,' explores American society and his own coming of age through the lens of the Phillies’ 1964 collapse The Philadelphia Eagles’ victory in the Super Bowl was a euphoric milestone in the lives of Philly sports fans. But no matt ...

9 Feb 2018 - DeVon Pouncey