Pamela Price entered Yale University in 1974 as a Black nationalist with an Angela Davis-style afro. She'd never heard of Title IX and wasn't attracted to any of the women's organizations on campus. She put her heart and energies into the…
A new Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change at San Jose State University launched yesterday, but media coverage of the kick-off event gives the impression that only men are athletes and activists. A featured panel of "leaders and legends"…
The U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has at least another week to consider what it will ask Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos since it delayed her nomination hearing from Jan. 11th to next Wednesday, Jan. 18. My suggestion: Ask…
Pop quiz: Who said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Go ahead, google it. You'll find lots of sources all over the Web and social media agreeing that the quote came from poet and writer Maya…
I saw ghosts in October. I could sense that female athletes were out there being sportsy and all, but in my local newspaper mostly they were invisible. I decided, on an irritated whim, to monitor the San Francisco Chronicle's coverage…
Title IX itself isn't on the ballot Nov. 8, but it might as well be. The gains made for sexual and gender fairness through Title IX were created by politicians, courts, and activists, and can be undone by them, too…
Journalists's coverage of Title IX disputes put the heat on government and educational institutions to deal with sex discrimination, from Cheryl Fields at The Chronicle of Higher Education in the 1970s to Tyler Kingkade at the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed today. Their…
History turns a page this week when Hillary Clinton becomes the first female candidate for U.S. President to be nominated by a major political party. In the spirit of this blog's weaving of historical and contemporary threads, you might enjoy…
I loved being the quarterback. I had a strong passing arm, a good eye for quickly reading the players on the field, and fast legs to sprint when I had to. My college football team didn’t play on the stadium…
"It's just ordinary us." That's how Holly Knox describes people who change the world. You don't need to be special, she said. Most world-changers aren't. She's one of the "ordinary" people who followed an opportunity to make a difference, and…