How the NFL sidelines Black coaches
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today on “Post Reports,” we talk about how Black coaches have been excluded from the NFL’s top jobs, despite years of attention on this issue – and why the problem is actually getting worse.
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Since 1989, only 25 head coaches in the National Football League have been Black, and in the more than a century long history of the NFL only 26 Black men have held the title.
Despite 60 percent of the league’s players being Black, an investigation by The Washington Post found that the NFL’s hiring and firing practices still disadvantage Black coaches at every turn.
Sports enterprise reporter Michael Lee and sports columnist Jerry Brewer join us today to discuss their reporting about how the NFL sidelines Black coaches.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Martine. |
| 0:04.3 | So before we start today's show, we have a big announcement that we need to share. |
| 0:09.5 | I am here with Alahe Azadi and Alahe, why don't you tell people what the news is. |
| 0:15.4 | I am now officially a co-host of Post Reports. |
| 0:19.8 | I am so excited. |
| 0:21.5 | Woo! |
| 0:22.5 | Woo! |
| 0:23.5 | We are so excited too. |
| 0:26.3 | So Alahe is going to be co-hosting Post Reports. |
| 0:30.1 | You will be hearing her voice just like you have been for the last few months. |
| 0:34.2 | She's officially on our team and officially one of the voices on our show. |
| 0:38.6 | And that is really great news for listeners because people who have heard Alahe know that |
| 0:43.1 | she has such warmth, she's so funny, she's so curious, she's so smart about the way that |
| 0:47.6 | she approaches questions and interviews and stories. |
| 0:50.8 | And it's also a big deal for us because that means that we can do more stories, be more |
| 0:55.0 | ambitious and tell the kind of journalism that we aspire to tell. |
| 1:00.2 | I mean, Martine, what you and everyone else on the show have done for the past several |
| 1:04.2 | years has been so incredible. |
| 1:06.6 | So I just feel honored that I get to be a part of it now in an official capacity and contribute |
| 1:13.2 | to, like you said, expanding the type of storytelling that we do so that we can bring |
| 1:18.3 | listeners more reported features, deeper stories they can't hear elsewhere, and also |
| 1:23.4 | be able to respond really quickly to the news and accompany people through the biggest |
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