The impact of Black ball players' fight for higher compensation and labor protections in the ‘70s is felt today, writes Theresa Runstedtler
Runstedtler is a professor at American University and a scholar of African American history whose research focuses on the intersection of race, masculinity, labor, and sport. She is the author ofBlack Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBAheadline wryly.
Yet, rather than revealing the truth of the NBA’s so-called Dark Ages, Cobbs’s sensationalistic story throws into relief the fault lines of a decade-long struggle in the NBA over the future of the sport—one that intersected with broader racial politics. As Black ball became a referendum on Black freedom, the professional game emerged as a kind of morality play about the shifting place of African Americans in U.S.
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