Jason Collins’ coming out was a step in the right direction, but only an openly gay NFL player will make the kind of impact needed to truly challenge prejudice in American sports.
Joel Anderson
Joel Anderson is better known in the blogosphere and Twitterverse as blackink12 of PostBourgie. He is currently a newspaper reporter in Florida and has worked at several news organizations, including The Associated Press, for nearly a decade.
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Coming Out of the Locker Room
There are hints we might soon see the first openly gay major league sports player. But are the fans ready?
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Football, Body and Mind
A sportswriter looks back on his history with America’s favorite pastime.
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Hurricane Warning
Uncovering the problems with the University of Miami’s football program could finally help change college athletics.
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Burying “Post-Racial”
We’re so far from achieving a post-racial society that even using the term is harmful.
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TAP Talks Treme: Smoke My Peace Pipe
A different look at what housing projects mean, our mostly fruitless search for sympathetic institutional figures, and Davis walks the friends-with-benefits line.
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TAP Talks Treme: Shame and Shallow Water
Davis pulls a John Mayer, hope for Annie, and why the women of NOLA are more impressive than the men.
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TAP Talks Treme: At the Foot of Canal Street
This week’s bad guys, the appeal of idealistic European musicians, and bets are on that Mardi Gras is the season finale.
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TAP Talks Treme: Right Place, Wrong Time
The social hierarchy of musicians, shades of Shake the Devil Off, and can there be good disaster tourism?
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TAP Talks Treme: Meet de Boys on the Battlefront
The problem with white do-gooders, what really happened with Albert and the burglar, and how Treme offers the strongest class narrative since Roseanne.
