Between the Lines Ep. 1: The Long History of Football and Race

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Welcome to the first episode of The Athletic's latest narrative podcast series - Between the Lines. The five episode series hosted by The Athletic's Tashan Reed looks at the Black experience in the NFL through a series of interviews with a diverse group of current and former NFL players, coaches, executives and league officials.

Episode 1 of Between the Lines reviews the major moments in the 100 year history of race and activism in football while placing an emphasis on the inherent conflict between doing so and adhering to the culture of football. Voices in this episode include Doug Williams, Bomani Jones, Jim Trotter, Marcus Thompson II, Devin McCourty, and two of the originators of the Rooney Rule - Cyrus Mehri and Dr. Janice Madden.

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0:26.3	Learn more at vertexinck.com. I'm Tashon Reed.
0:45.4	I'm a black man from Ferguson, Missouri.
0:47.8	My dad, Kenneth, grew up in the Pruitt Igo Projects in downtown St. Louis in the 50s and 60s.
0:54.0	Water lines in several of the Pruitt Igo apartment buildings broke and the subsequent
0:57.9	flow of water turned into ice. And now raw sewage bubbles out of the ground like a
1:02.3	malevolent spring. He lived through what would become known as the Civil Rights Movement.
1:11.8	My mom, freedom, freedom.
1:17.4	My mom, Brenda, was raised in Osceola, Arkansas in the 60s and 70s.
1:21.4	In the South, racial tension hadn't waned one bit.
1:26.2	Today, I have stood where once Jefferson Davis stood.
1:28.0	My parents told me about their experiences and taught me the ugly history of what black people
1:33.4	in America went through. Then, in 2008, it felt like maybe. Just maybe, America as a whole,
1:40.7	was taking some positive steps forward. If there is anyone out there.
1:45.6	When Barack Obama was elected as America's first black president.
1:50.3	Who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible.
1:56.1	Perhaps the days my parents described living through were a thing of the past.
1:59.8	Who still questions the power of our democracy.
2:04.3	Tonight is your answer.
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