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4.19 African Americans and Sports
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This Bunk Connection features an excerpt from the BackStory podcast and a video from RetroReport.
Listen to this brief audio segment, Black Power Salute. You may read along with the transcript embedded in Bunk while you listen.
Return to the Bunk Connection and view the connected video, The Black Athlete in America.
Return again to the Bunk Connection and notice the associated TAGS the two pieces of content have in common.
- What similarities and differences do you see between the 1968 Olympians’ protest and the NFL protests in 2016?
- How do these protests fit into the longer narrative of the Black freedom struggle?
- What other TAG might you suggest these two excerpts have in common? Cite examples from each to support your answer.
You may select a TAG to explore the topic further or go back to the audio or video content and select View Connections to find new connections.
Black Power Salute. The founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights talks about the iconic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the winners’ podium in 1968 via BackStory on January 26, 2018.
The Black Athlete in America. Colin Kaepernick continues a long tradition of athletes using their celebrity to protest America's racial inequality by Matt Spolar, Brian Kamerzel via Retro Report on December 21, 2017.