Wednesday, August 26 may go down as a day the landscape shifted in North American sports culture.
At the time of this publication, three leagues, multiple teams and players, and more than a few broadcasters, analysts, and pundits chose to boycott, strike, and speak out about racial injustice. George Floyd’s murder in May sparked a wide-scale discussion about white silence and complicity amidst national and international protests against police brutality against the Black community. The attempted murder of Jacob Blake three months later on August 23 sparked wide-scale action in major league sports as teams and players called on their local government to enact change.