Much to the chagrin of Roger Goodell and the National Football League’s (NFL) Park Avenue marketing executives, the newest face of the League has evolved into a black quarterback. Not a fair skinned, high yellow mulatto like Patrick Mahomes; or, an articulate, curly haired, bronze colored all-American like Russell Wilson; but one with jet black skin and “Buckwheat” style platted hair who breaks verbs and butchers sentences. He is none other than the late, first-round draft ch

Kaepernick's protest had nothing to do with the flag or patriotism. It was a demonstration to bring attention to police brutality and th

The NFL’s latest disciplinary action against Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson smacks of institutional and structural racism. Plain and simple, it is a continuing attack on the African American male by the establishment in an attempt to further emasculate and marginalize the black male’s position as a patriarch of African American families. These attacks on the black male are nothing new. They date back to the inception of the Transatlantic slave trade in wh

Perennial NFL hopeful Michael Sam just made headlines again. Not for being the first openly gay player to be drafted, but for being cut again, this time by the Dallas Cowboys. Sam was released recently after a week's long stint on the Cowboys practice squad. Although I applauded Michael Sam's induction into the NFL via its annual college football draft in May, I would applaud any young man so fortunate as to be drafted by an NFL team, regardless of sexual preference. What sho