A Statement on Racial Injustice
We at the Stark Center would like to offer our support to those courageous folks currently seeking solutions to the racial injustices which have plagued this nation since its founding. These deep-rooted issues permeate all facets of American life, including public health, as we’ve seen during the current COVID-19 pandemic, but also the realm of sport and physical culture. “You don’t just turn the TV set off when the game is over,” Terry Todd once said in a 2015 interview on the opening of the Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 exhibit. “Sport is political, has been political and will always be...