"black-athletes" Articles & Blogs:
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| Did you know that 94% of girls in U.S. play sports?
Unfortunately, there is a lack of female athletes being represented in mass media and that is the cultural image of female athletes being absorbed by the majority of young girls who choose to play.
Fo...[Read on] |
A new low in coverage of Tiger Woods...in Vanity Fair?
| The cover on the latest Vanity Fair, which includes a story by Buzz Bissinger with sordid details about Tiger Woods' extramarital affairs, plays so baldly to racist stereotypes about black, male athletes that the infamous 2008 Vogue cover pales in compar...[Read on] |
Scarlett Johansson to Be Black Widow in 'Iron Man 2'
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Actress will play spy in next installment of Marvel Comics franchisePost | Today 9:35 am
Actress Scarlett Johansson will don a skintight black outfit when she plays Black Widow in the forthcoming "Iron Man" sequel.
Rumor had it that Johans...[Read on] |
Sexism & Horse Racing: The Preakness
| I’m watching the pre-race coverage of the Preakness horse race right now on NBC. I’ve been following the media coverage of this race all week. Drama and debate rage on “should fillies race with stallions” due to the recent success of filly Rachel...[Read on] |
BleacherReport List: Most Bootylicious Female Athletes
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I am not kidding, a picture-list of female athletes' asses.
If ever there were reason to type "SMH", now is definitely the time.
Here we go, people. The time has finally arrived for one of the most talked about slideshows in the history of this web...[Read on] |
Black History Month – Honoring Female Athletes
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Over the years, there have been many great black athletes. This month, to celebrate Black History Month, we’d like to honor some of the women who have contributed to the soul of sports.
Pioneers
Althea Gibson was a pioneer in both amateur tennis and pr...[Read on] |
Celebrating Black Women Writers and Artists for Black History Month
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The Frisky has an awesome series of images and stories about black women writers and artists, that are not as often heard of, including Ntozake Shange, Judith Jamison, and my very favorite Zora Neale Hurston.
I recently re-read Their Eyes Were Watching...[Read on] |
Media coverage of Serena Williams' outburst emphasizes gender norms
| Serena Williams, in her outburst at the U.S. Open, stepped outside the box of what is considered acceptable behavior for female athletes, according to the most recent report from the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. We analyzed article from both ...[Read on] |
How Kick-Ass Would A Harriet Tubman Barbie Be?
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Multi-media artist, Pierre Bennu, has released the second piece in a three-series installment of commercials for a hypothetical "Black Moses Barbie" toy. The commercials are an extremely clever and funny tribute to the legacy of Harriet Tubman and o...[Read on] |
Sojourner Truth honored in the Capitol
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Today Congress will unveil a new bust of Sojourner Truth in the U.S. Capitol. She's the first black woman to be honored there. This is a far cry from the last time Congress proposed "honoring" a black woman, Melissa Harris Lacewell writes:
It is import...[Read on] |
Black History Month – Honoring Female Athletes
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Over the years, there have been many great black athletes. This month, to celebrate Black History Month, we’d like to honor some of the women who have contributed to the soul of sports.
Pioneers
Althea Gibson was a pioneer in both amateur tennis and pr...[Read on] |
The Awful Reality of an Athlete’s Wife
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Thinking about getting involved with a sports star? Author’s and former partners of famous athletes, Sherrie Daly and Rosa Blasi, want you to read their books before dating a sports player. The books “Teed Off” and “Jock Itch&rdquo...[Read on] |
'Precious' Pushes Past Controversy to Oscar Night
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Not since the film version of "The Color Purple" came out 15 years ago have black women had so much at stake at the Academy Awards.
"The Color Purple"--based on a book of the same name by Alice Walker about sisterhood a...[Read on] |
Female athletes outperform their male counterparts in college
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College athletes are still setting records and dispelling myths — in the classroom.
The NCAA’s latest graduation numbers show nearly four out of five student-athletes earn their diplomas on time, an all-time high, and federal statistics show athletes...[Read on] |
How boxing is better than 11 other sports and hobbies
| Boxing is like playing underwater chess in a swimming pool filled with sharks. You have to keep moving, it’s hard to concentrate, and you feel like you just can’t get enough air.
But I love it anyway, and whenever someone asks me why I can’t take u...[Read on] |
Fashion Face-Off: "It" Girls at Chanel
| Every Friday VF.com pores through the crème de la crème of party pictures to find two contenders for the best outfit of the week. Tell us your favorite in our Fashion Face-Off. New York Fashion Week began in earnest last night at the opening...[Read on] |
Tangled and The Black Swan Kick Box Office Butt
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Tangled overtook Harry Potter at the box office this weekend on its second weekend out and is close to making $100 million in just two weeks.
On the one hand its great that a woman centric film (ok, a princess centric film) is doing so great but it wil...[Read on] |
African National Congress: "Such comments can only serve to portray women as being weak"
| Seldom have I seen a rejoinder as plain-spoken and incisive as the ANC's to accusations that women's 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya is not a woman. I could not find or conjure up a better title for this post.
Caster Semenya earned a gold medal i...[Read on] |
DC shakeup. The ugly paradox.
| DC shakeup. No, not that DC. I refer here to DC Comics, which now has a new name—DC Entertainment—and a new president. This overhaul by parent company Warner Bros. bodes well for a forthcoming Wonder Woman film. Another sign that things are looking up...[Read on] |
Does Best Buy Own the Word “Geek”?
| Electronics giant Best Buy issued a cease-and-desist letter to a Web site, Newegg.com, that was encouraging users to “Geek On.” Best Buy offers the services of a team of uniformed tech savants, known as the Geek Squad, who will assist customers in set...[Read on] |
Interview with Adrienne Lofton, Senior Marketing Director at Under Armour
| Adrienne Lofton is the Senior Marketing Director at Under Armour. She played volleyball at Howard University and then worked her way up from being an intern at Gap, to positions at GM and Target, to where she is now. I interviewed her as she took a break ...[Read on] |
Interview with Sandra Laing - Real life subject of Skin
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Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo
Skin is the heartbreaking true story of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo) as a woman with black skin born to white parents in apartheid S. Africa. She is a white girl who looked black. As a young girl she rea...[Read on] |
Social Media & Sport Apologies
| Discussion in the Tucker Center this morning was very lively around the topic of Serena Williams’ U.S. Open semifinal outburst, fine, and subsequent apology via her blog and Twitter account (also see picture here).
I have a few other thoughts o...[Read on] |
Equal Opportunities for Transgender Student-Athletes
| On October 25-26 in Indianapolis, The Women’s Sports Foundation initiative, It Takes A Team will be partnering with the Sports Project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights to host a national think tank entitled, “Equal Opportunities for Transgend...[Read on] |
Volleyball reinstated at QU, Men's Track eliminated
| After being temporarily enjoined from cutting the women's volleyball program, Quinnipiac University has decided to permanently reinstate the team. This move will likely result in a settlement of the Title IX lawsuit against the university, according to t...[Read on] |
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