Kevin Blackistone
Kevin Blackistone has been a national sports columnist since 1990, last at The Washington Post.
He was a panelist on ESPN’s long-running talk show “Around the Horn. He is cohost of an award-winning podcast Our New South, 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 Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting.
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