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Zirin: NHL Takes 'Historic Step' for LGBT Equality
Apr 15, 2013
In a first for a major sports organization, the National Hockey League is taking a stand against anti-LGBT bigotry in their sport
Zirin: My Talk With NBA Player Royce White
Mar 08, 2013
Royce White is an NBA player with a cause
Zirin: Global System of Deadly Misogyny
Feb 23, 2013
Short of a billion of us rising, happy and safe homes will not be a reality for the women of the world
Zirin: Mental Health Revolutionary
Feb 20, 2013
NBA player Royce White wants to use basketball as a platform to fight for universal mental health coverage with clinics in every community
Zeccola: “Reconstituting” Pioneering High School
Dec 28, 2012
The program linked classroom teaching relevant to the students’ experiences to work and internships in the community
Zirin: The Year Our Sports Broke
Dec 27, 2012
“Sports are us, so political and personal that the yammering of most sportswriters and sportscasters may be far more dangerous than the posturing of the news clowns.”
Zirin: Nine-Year-Old Girl Maybe Changes the World
Nov 14, 2012
The future of sports could be a beautiful, life-affirming safe-space or it could be an anchor on human progress, expending effort on policing gender
Zirin: “The Gloves Come Off”
Aug 16, 2012
"After the Olympics the gloves will come off." They all meant that the Olympics were a vacation from political reality
Zirin: Drew Brees & Union Power
Jul 04, 2012
This is about ensuring that anyone who wants a union or is in a union can speak out in defense of their livelihood
Zirin: Welcome to the 2012 Olympics
May 16, 2012
Local police forces have just been given an inordinate number of new toys and the boxes have been opened, the receipts tossed away
Zirin: Start with the '84 LA Olympics
May 05, 2012
When the people have no voice, no community, and no power, their frustration is left no physical choice but to explode
Zirin: 25 Years Since Al Campanis Shocked Baseball
Apr 18, 2012
The Campanis lesson for Major League Baseball hasn’t been to take on racism in the sport, but find executives who can smile for the camera and talk a cat out of a tree
Zirin: Trayvon Martin’s Death, LeBron James and the Miami Heat
Mar 30, 2012
That’s the scary thing about choosing to give a damn. People will expect you to mean it
Zirin: Beneath the Brackets
Mar 13, 2012
In our perennial rite of spring, we are being bombarded with bracketology, Final Four predictions and the general hoops hysteria otherwise known as "March Madness
Zinn: A Marvelous Victory
Feb 01, 2010
American historian, playwright and social activist Howard Zinn died January 27, 2010, aged 87. Below is an excerpt from his recent book A Power Governments Cannot Suppress published by City Lights Books.
Zinn: War & Peace Prizes
Oct 11, 2009
I was dismayed when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on two wars would be given a peace prize. Until I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Kissinger had all received Nobel peace prizes. The Nobel committee is famous for its superficial estimates, won over by rhetoric and by empty gestures, and ignoring blatant violations of world peace.
Zinn: Empire
Oct 03, 2008
This current financial crisis is a major way-station on the way to the collapse of the American empire. The first important sign was 9/11, with the most heavily-armed nation in the world shown to be vulnerable to a handful of hijackers.
Zinn: Memo to Obama
Jul 19, 2008
For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of humans die, most of them civilians, many of them children?
Zinn: The New Deal
Apr 02, 2008
We might wonder why no Democratic Party contender for the presidency has invoked the memory of the New Deal and its unprecedented series of laws aimed at helping people in need. The New Deal was tentative, cautious, bold enough to shake the pillars of the system but not to replace them. It created many jobs but left 9 million unemployed. It built public housing but not nearly enough. It helped large commercial farmers but not tenant farmers. Excluded from its programs were the poorest of the poor, especially blacks. As farm laborers, migrants or domestic workers, they didn't qualify for unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, Social Security or farm subsidies.
May 08, 2013
RGIII was confronted with the actuality of Ali’s ideas and was deeply in awe of his sacrifice