Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete Audiobook (Free)

From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, BLACK athletes have already been at the guts of modern lifestyle, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric profits envied. But also for all their money, fame, and accomplishment, says former New York Situations columnist William C. Rhoden, dark athletes still end up for the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar market their talent constructed.

Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a on the subject of Forty Million Money Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete convincing narrative of dark athletes in america, from the plantation with their beginnings in nineteenth-century boxing bands and at the first Kentucky Derby to the history-making accomplishments of notable figures such as for example Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden makes the cogent discussion that dark sports athletes’ ‘progression’ has merely been a journey from literal plantations to today’s figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. Sketching from his decades like a sportswriter, Rhoden contends that dark athletes’ exercise of true power is really as limited today as when experts forced their slaves to race and fight.

Sweeping and meticulously complete, Forty Million Buck Slaves is an eye-opening exploration of a metaphor we only thought we knew.