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Should Black men Keep Their Sexuality Hidden in the Workplace?
[Admin Note: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage once again, K. Ferdinand.] “I’m coming out…. Coming!…I want the world to know gotta let it show…”. I’m sorry, but that seems to be the new National Anthem these days. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, the latest news is about Mizzou’s defensive lineman Michael Sam coming out the closet revealing to the sports world that he will be the first openly gay athlete to [actively] compete in a major American sport. Journalists and the media have been in a frenzy trying to figure out how he will be accepted in the NFL. More importantly, how will Michael Sam’s sexuality affect…
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When Living in the Moment Goes Wrong, Sports Edition
Yo! Yo! Yo! fellow readers of OM, I hope your new year is going well so far. I’m not into New years Resolutions or anything but if you made some, I hope you are sticking to, or attempting to stick to them. I guess one we all have is to save more and spend less but it’s rather daunting to do so. Anyway let’s touch on some of the stuff we’ve seen in sports over the last few weeks. I want to congratulate Peyton Manning on his victory against the Patriots this past Sunday. I mean after all you beat a Patriots team that was already void of receivers (we’ll…
