Toronto FC's Justin Morrow discusses Black Players for Change and the latest efforts undertaken by the organization
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🗓️ 5 August 2020
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Toronto FC's Justin Morrow joins the show to discuss the Black Players for Change organization, his overall experience at the MLS is Back tournament, and what happens next for both the league and the BPC.
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| 1:01.7 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 1:02.9 | With me today is not Daryl Grove. |
| 1:04.8 | It's a footballer of a higher caliber, I would say. |
| 1:07.3 | No disrespect to Daryl, but it's Justin Morrow of Toronto FC and the executive |
| 1:10.9 | director of the Black Players Coalition of Major League Soccer. Justin, thank you very much for taking |
| 1:15.1 | the time to talk with me today. Thanks, Taylor. Thanks for having me. And for notice it's Black |
| 1:21.1 | Players for Change. Ah, so we're getting it right. All right. So has that changed then? Or has that |
| 1:27.4 | always been what it was and I'm just misinformed? |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah, it changed. |
| 1:31.1 | We did an announcement the day before the term started. |
| 1:35.1 | We did an announcement that we partnered with Players Coalition, |
| 1:39.4 | which was started in 2017 by Anklon Bolden and Malcolm Jenkins. |
| 1:45.6 | And in that same release, we announced that we had changed our name from Black Players Coalition to Black Players for Change. |
| 1:52.2 | All right. |
| 1:52.7 | My question then is sort of the same. |
| 1:55.7 | I have been hesitant to use an acronym. |
| 1:58.4 | I'm not sure why. |
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