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Black-White grad gap shrinks

While countless Americans bemoaned their busted brackets on the road to the Final Four that winds up here in Minneapolis next week, two elephant-in-the-room issues still get overlooked annually: The players still don’t get a dime of the millions they generate, and the graduation disparity gaps between Black and White male and female basketball players still exist.

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Major League Baseball builds ‘diversity pipeline’

Fourth in an occasional series Longtime columnist William C. Rhoden has written on The Undefeated.com about the “blinding Whiteness in virtually every sector” of college sport, including key leadership and other essential positions, calling it the “diversity conundrum.” MSR’s multi-part series expands on Rhoden’s observation. This week…WANTED: male or female of color looking to break […]

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Timberwolves show improvement in 2017 diversity report card

The National Basketball Association under Commissioner Adam Silver’s leadership remains the undisputed racial and gender hiring leader, according to the latest “Racial and Gender Report Card” (RGRC) by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES). “Generally speaking the NBA tends to improve on both racial and gender hiring practices” each year, noted TIDES […]

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