[Each
year for the last
few, I’ve used Super
Bowl week as a platform
for a series on sports
in America. This week, I’ve AmericanStudied figures and moments related to
women in sports, leading up to this weekend post sharing a handful of links to
keep that conversation going!]
Here’s an
NPR interview with author and journalist Don Van Natta Jr.
about his book Wonder
Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
Jeannie Suk
Gersen writes for
The New Yorker about another side of Title IX, the
issue of transgender bathrooms.
An hour-long
conversation between rapper Common and Serena Williams for ESPN’s site on
race and sports, The Undefeated.
Dave Zirin writes on his Edge of
Sports blog about the WNBA and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
And a ThinkProgress
roundtable with female sportswriters about the issue
of online harassment.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Other women and sports stories or histories you’d share?
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