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Taking A Knee: Athlete Activism

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The Untold History of Sports in America

Join celebrated history professor Matthew Andrews for discussions about sports from their earliest days in the colonies all the way to their present s 
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In our final episode, Matt Andrews explores how athletes have protested in the modern era, from Craig Hodges' direct plea to President Bush to Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem. Those protests, just like similar ones before it, were criticized by some Americans who told those athletes to "shut up and dribble." 

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