Candid Race Talk Launches College Sports Symposium: Expert panelists speaking during the opening sessions of a two-day academic conference on college sports and race detailed how lucrative sports competition — men’s basketball and football — have led many to ask whether student-athletes in those sports are exploited for their talent while others profit immeasurably. That many, if not most male athletes in Division I basketball and football are African-American, was frequently mentioned.
The “Losing to Win: Discussions of Race and Intercollegiate Sports” symposium at Wake Forest University has brought together nearly 50 panelists from all walks of academia, law and athletics, including coaches, administrators and athletes, to discuss historic and contemporary dimensions of big-time college sports, while highlighting the racial components of those issues.
