What we are seeing from scores of athletes in professional basketball, baseball, football, hockey, tennis, and soccer is unprecedented in American labour history and American sports history.
Athletes taking public stands for various causes has been going on for more than half a century, but this collective action in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and against unchecked systemic police brutality is, in the words of Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, "without historical precedent, in terms of its breadth, its reach, and its power. We are in uncharted territory."
It's more than a boycott.