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November 29 2014; Ariyana Smith made the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture at a university basketball game.
She lay on the court for four-and-a-half minutes to represent the four-and-a-half hours Michael Brown lay dead on the streets of Ferguson.
I heard about her through Dave Zirin at a Philosophy Football event a few weeks after and asked him if people would remember her 50 years on.
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
LARRY LAGE writes about the growth of tackle football and how it provides female athletes opportunities in a game previously dominated by men
Norwegian’s French Open struggle lays bare brutal truth in elite game — playing in pain isn’t the exception, it’s the expectation, writes HOWARD FENDRICH
