Filipino-Americans have often been called the “invisible minority”. Despite being the second largest Asian-American community in America – and the first Asians to come to America in 1587 –...
A transgender teen boy has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons after he won the Class 6A girls’ wrestling state championship in Texas (where else?). Forced to compete with high school...
When Andy Woodward, a former professional football (known as soccer in the USA) player, told the Guardian that he had been sexually abused as a child by former coach Barry Bennell, he can’t...
Ched Evans, the footballer who was previously found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room, has had his conviction overturned following a retrial that found him not guilty of the sexual...
The erasure of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s radical legacy is a transgression of historic proportions. Just a few months before King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he wrote the...
Falling over in public is embarrassing. Doing so on camera for an international audience could make you want to crawl into a hole and never climb out. But when Brazilian athlete and torchbearer...
Of all the rampant sexism being flung around during the 2016 Olympics, the most hateful may be what's happening to American gymnast Gabby Douglas, who is suffering a thousand cuts at the hands of...
The United States will be holding its 50th Super Bowl next year in Levi’s Stadium, a brand-new, multi-million dollar facility sitting at the base of the Bay Area’s Peninsula region. While the...
The US National Women’s Team utterly routed their Japanese counterparts in the thrilling World Cup final in Vancouver on Sunday, making sports history. The women also made history for another...
Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, commented that “the art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” What is more tragic than the forlorn shadow of a fallen athlete...