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Celtics transform anthem civil rights protests into a call for unity

This past Sunday, we covered the Celtics ongoing commitment to the struggle for civil rights, where Jae Crowder hinted at a shift in tactics to continue the conversation started by Colin Kaepernick, Carmelo Anthony, and others.

Last night, Jae and the rest of the team showed us what that shift would look like:

True to their roots, Boston took the building momentum among sports figures using their platform to aid that struggle to the court and web last night, brilliantly reframing a jarring (but necessary) start to this most recent iteration of a decades-long conversation as both a call to action and an issue of unity - ubuntu, you might say - crucial to achieving progress in solving the problems which have brought such protests to forefront.