As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
- E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to take on the Philadelphia Eagles, The Conversation takes a critical look at some of the biggest news stories from the past NFL season.
Inspired by real events, the films tackle issues of race, gender and class in ways that will resonate with many of today’s viewers.
The insistence on preserving the team name – along with fan traditions like the ‘tomahawk chop’ – is even more glaring given the city’s links to the civil rights movement.
Years before Colin Kaepernick was born, Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’
Among the more than 20,000 men who have played major league baseball, not one has publicly come out of the closet while still in uniform.
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