Student-Athletes Lead Campus Charge for Racial Justice

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In the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake and continued racial unrest, college athletes throughout the country are adding their voices to the growing calls for justice. Football players and other student-athletes have taken time away from practices and team activities to participate in marches and other demonstrations.

Prior to kickoff in the first college football game of what is sure to be a memorable season, members of the Austin Peay football team stopped in Selma, Ala., to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge — where in the 1960s demonstrators such as John Lewis marched for voting rights and were met with violence by Alabama state troopers in an event that became known as “Bloody Sunday.” 

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