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Can artificial intelligence help us understand racial bias in sports?

Computer scientists apply artificial intelligence and ‘big data’ analytics to demonstrate bias in how sports commentators discuss athletes

Jamie Foxx Culture

Jamie Foxx’s ‘Any Given Sunday’ character pioneered a shift for black quarterbacks

Willie Beamen was a quarterback willing to run — and lead — on his own terms

Malcolm Jenkins Sports

Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins supports ‘College Behind Bars,’ a prison documentary

The four-part PBS series airs on Nov. 25 and 26 at 9 p.m.

Culture

Harvard’s black students using game against Howard to celebrate culture

First-time football meeting gives students opportunity to highlight diverse manifestations of blackness

Sports

Toni Harris made history by getting a football scholarship. Now she needs to make tackles.

Free safety has already overcome doubters, cancer and family trauma. Playing against men doesn’t faze her.

Culture

With ‘Brian Banks’ and ‘Clemency,’ actor Aldis Hodge finds the humanity in men society wants to discard

‘Banks’ tells the story of a football star falsely accused of rape

Sports

On this football team, keep your eye out for the trash-talking mom

Former Ohio State player leads his family to a flag football championship

The Uplift

Melanie Few is celebrating 20 years of her Super Bowl Gospel Celebration

Atlanta marketing exec is the force behind the Super Bowl’s only official faith-based event

Sports

A football hero for a new generation of Somali-Americans

Hamza Mohamed’s success represents much more to a community that’s balancing traditions new and old

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