As passionate and in tune with social issues as Muhammad Ali was and LeBron James along with other major African American sports figures are, blacks in collegiate athletics share in the exact same mission. In the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshad Brooks, the “Black Lives Matter” movement in stopping racial injustice and police brutality made it to the University of Alabama.
While coaches such as Nick Saban, Nate Oats and Kristy Curry have spoken out along with members of the administration staff, it has been the student-athletes who have been the most vocal on the matter.