Equity and Inclusion

League will play “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing” before season openers.

Today, with thousands protesting nationwide against racial injustice, a years-old push is gaining steam to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Rep. John Lewis, who led the 1965 marchers on “Bloody Sunday.” But the idea is drawing opposition in Selma, including from some who marched with Lewis that day.

Federal law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested a man in Washington they call a “ringleader” in the recent attempt to destroy the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square near the White House.

Black-owned businesses are enjoying a surge in support amid the national reckoning on racism sparked by George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis.

The Ohio capital named for Christopher Columbus removed a large statue of him outside its city hall on Wednesday, taking down what the mayor described as a symbol of divisiveness and oppression.

“NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue,” Trump tweeted Wednesday.

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the new members in its continued effort to emphasize diversity.

President Donald Trump is vowing to veto a massive defense bill to keep military bases such as Fort Bragg named after Confederate officers, swimming against sentiment in his own party and imperiling a 3% pay raise for the troops.

Trump is calling for two suspects to turn themselves in on federal charges for vandalizing statues of George Washington in New York City. 

A group of Little Caesars employees in Ohio have been fired after an offensive anti-Semitic image was allegedly discovered on a Hot N’ Ready pizza that a customer purchased.

Nineteen craft breweries in the region have joined the nationwide "Black is Beautiful" beer initiative. It has grown from one brewer's call for social justice into an international movement. The idea took off, with more than 900 breweries in all 50 states and 17 countries now taking up the cause.

The Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence in the South 155 years after the end of the Civil War.

In an effort to continue talking about social justice and racial inequality, the league will paint the phrase inside both sidelines, a report states.