The Black Athlete
Louis Moore and Derrick White
4.8from 61 ratings
- 83
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 61
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About The Black Athlete
This is a podcast by Louis Moore and Derrick White. As trained historians and leading scholars on sports and race, we discuss the history of the black athlete in a contemporary conversation. Moore is the author of I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, and also We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, The Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality. White is the author of The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football
- Publisher
- Louis Moore and Derrick White
- Category
- sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Feb 2019
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 83 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Protect College Sports Act
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kaepernick 10 Years Later
1 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
America 250 and the Black Athlete
Inside a recent episode
Protect College Sports Act
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so here we are again, right, in 2026, trying to protect as college athletics has undergone massive changes with the creation of NIL, name, image, and likeness, that student athletes in particular in revenue generating sports are commanding as high as $5 million. I thought the Miami quarterback is reportedly getting $5 million. The Trinidad Chamberlain is getting approximately that amount too. But many players in the high major Division I programs are getting anywhere between, I don't know, 250,000 on the low end and 5 million on the upper end. And we're seeing not that quite high numbers in women's sports, but in women's basketball, it's not unusual for them to get six figures and sometimes creep into seven figures at some of the elite programs, right? […]
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- 4.8 / 5
- 50 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 11 ratings
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- YouTube
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