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.mikefreemanNFL latest column is a reminder that 'two groups of people, Blacks and Jews, have always had each other's backs, and need to again.'

Woke Wars, on ice: Ron DeSantis turns anti-Black, discriminatory agenda on the NHL | OpinionI want to remind both communities, I want to remind everyone, of how this closeness goes back decades, with someone you might not know. Her name is Agnes Adachi and she is a Holocaust survivor.to the USC Shoah Foundation, which uses interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides as teachable moments.

"I was at the Olympic Games when Jesse Owens was running," she says,"and that is one thing I will never forget because were just as much against Blacks as they were the Jews." Adachi said that as Owens passed Nazi Hermann Göring, a military leader and convicted war criminal, Owens"gave him the dirtiest look."She speaks of Owens with such pride and, well, almost love, because she realized then what Blacks and Jews should know now: our unity is our strength.

This series will highlight the challenges and opportunities Black athletes and officials will face utilizing a combination of longform stories, opinion articles and other forms of journalism. Some of the stories will remind us of our humanity, which these days is often obscured by

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