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Throughout the year, I will be producing a capstone project that will cover the topic of how professional athletes use the platform that they naturally obtain for being pro athletes, to speak out on issues such as social injustice, and other global issues. A portion of my Capstone will be specifically covering The Kaepernick Effect, and how it has impacted other athletes to take a stand. Below, there will be highlights from an research paper that I wrote for a piece of my capstone. Moving forward, I plan on creating a virtual timeline of activism in sports for the last couple years. I hope to do this by selecting a group of some of the more prominent athlete activists, and going to their social media accounts to find tweets from some of the bigger tragedies that have happened, or events that have sparked discussion on larger issues in our society.
Here are some things that I wrote about in my paper:
- In February of 2017, he (Colin Kaepernick) pledged to donate $100,000 a month to businesses in oppressed communities. Some of those organizations are the Black Veterans for Social Justice in Brooklyn, The Somalia Famine Relief, and United We Dream, an organization helping immigrant youth become acclimated to their new homes. He donated to 24 organizations over ten months and ended up totaling $1,000,000 in donations.
- He described the foundation in an interview with Business Insider. The foundation is a mentorship program that works with kids from Akron, Ohio, LeBron’s hometown from 3rd-12th grade and the kids in the program are expected to maintain a 3.0 GPA through high school. The foundation has recently developed a relationship with the University of Akron where the mentorship program essentially continues completely through the schooling process and ensures that the student gets into a college.
- Though given their visibility and notoriety, athletes often have the power to become “agents of social change” and can use that status to become actively involved in social movements.
Link to full paper:
- In February of 2017, he (Colin Kaepernick) pledged to donate $100,000 a month to businesses in oppressed communities. Some of those organizations are the Black Veterans for Social Justice in Brooklyn, The Somalia Famine Relief, and United We Dream, an organization helping immigrant youth become acclimated to their new homes. He donated to 24 organizations over ten months and ended up totaling $1,000,000 in donations.
- He described the foundation in an interview with Business Insider. The foundation is a mentorship program that works with kids from Akron, Ohio, LeBron’s hometown from 3rd-12th grade and the kids in the program are expected to maintain a 3.0 GPA through high school. The foundation has recently developed a relationship with the University of Akron where the mentorship program essentially continues completely through the schooling process and ensures that the student gets into a college.
- Though given their visibility and notoriety, athletes often have the power to become “agents of social change” and can use that status to become actively involved in social movements.
Link to full paper:
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