Pop Quiz: How many months must a Cambodian Nike Factory worker toil to to purchase a pair of 2013 Nike Air Jordan 28′s in America?
Answer: 4 Months — but only if they receive the $88 per month salary they demanded.
via The Guardian
At least 23 workers were [...]
Via WashPost: “After 24 knee operations, the National Football League’s former Man of the Year leans heavily on a crutch. When Reggie Williams pulls up his pants leg, what’s underneath looks like the trimmings from a butcher shop. His right leg is so ravaged that it’s three inches shorter than his left. Worse, [...]
Press Release – Mianyang, China: Former NBA All Star, Humanitarian, entrepreneur and author, James Donaldson made a recent visit to several schools in the earthquake stricken areas in the Sichuan province of China. Donaldson, who spends a great deal of time in China working with The China Service Centre for Friendship and Cooperation with Foreign [...]
T.F. Charlton at RD Magazine: On Monday, the New York Jets released quarterback Tim Tebow from their roster after only a year on a team. In ironic timing, news almost immediately followed that Jason Collins, a veteran center in the NBA, had become the first active male athlete in a [...]
Jason Collins has announced that he is gay, but whether he is still an “active player” is still in question. That will be decided if and when he is picked up by an NBA team in the off-season. Nothing is certain as he is marginal enough of a player for teams to [...]
Jason Collins writes in Sports Illustrated:
I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.
I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn’t the kid in the [...]
“I think I’ve become much more aggressive since I left baseball.” – Jackie Robinson 1968
Much was overlooked in the sanitized Jackie Robinson movie, “42′. Thankfully, much has been written since to fill in the blanks of a complex man. While Robinson’s approach to achieving racial justice was always evolving, his commitment [...]
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