In the weeks after George Floyd’s murder, college athletes joined the swaths of people pushing for justice and equality. Three years later, the aims of the groups they formed have largely shifted.
Shelby, a member of the Vanderbilt women’s track and field team in the spring of 2020, and Commodores football player Elijah McAllister nursed the idea of founding a student-led group that could support and advocate for Black athletes at the university.
Three years after Floyd’s death May 25, 2020, after many of the student-athletes who led those initial efforts graduated, a new generation has refashioned those groups. While some athletes then spoke about sweeping change, many now have refocused on narrower goals such as mental health, empowerment and creating support systems to uplift one another.
The group’s initial actions accompanied a wave of student-athlete activism and mirrored similar groups that emerged at schools across the country after Floyd’s death. Leaders of Black college athlete groups said their members grew disengaged with “redundant” or saddening conversations about police brutality and systemic racism. They also faced their own day-to-day issues with racism, dismissiveness and isolation amid busy schedules that made organizing in any form an additional chore. Furthermore, the departure of upperclassmen who led many of those early initiatives left a void in direction and leadership.
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