<p>Kevin Blackistone has been a national sports columnist since 1990, last at <em>The Washington Post</em>. </p><p>He was a panelist on ESPN’s long-running talk show “Around the Horn. He is cohost of an award-winning podcast <em>Our New South</em>, a contributor to NPR, and a University of Maryland journalism professor. Drawing on a storied journalism career spanning more than 40 years, he shares insights on issues relating to diversity in sports as well as current, sometimes contentious topics, from Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police brutality to the role of professional sports in social justice, as reflected in the award-winning documentary he co-wrote and co-produced<em> Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting.</em></p>
Sports journalist, ESPN panelist, and University of Maryland journalism professor
<ul><li><strong>Race and Sport: Your Brain on Sports</strong></li><li> An address particularly about how young black men in college sports are pawns in a system that, ironically, they can control if only they exercised their collective power. </li><li><strong>Sport as a Social Institution: Don't Believe the Type</strong></li><li>As athletes and sport leagues around the country have been embroiled in controversy after athlete protests focusing on racial injustice, we've been reminded that sport as a social institution has the power to reflect the tenor of the time as well as serve as a platform to promote social change. </li></ul><p><br></p>