The Super Bowl has returned to Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown, and all week in Atlanta the NFL will lean heavily on the slain civil rights leader’s legacy. Tuesday morning, an NFL Network reporter recorded a standup outside Ebenezer Baptist Church, which served as King’s home base. While Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t an athlete, he understood the role sports could play in the broader civil rights movement, Morgan Campbell writes. Article Continued BelowNor does the roll call of current NFL head coaches resemble the racially integrated America that King envisioned and risked his life fighting for. Twelve years ago, Tony Dungy’s Indianapolis Colts defeated Lovie Smith’s Chicago Bears in the only Super Bowl to feature two African-American head coaches.

Source: thestar January 30, 2019 21:56 UTC