Detroit Lions linebacker Christian Jones spoke to reporters during a march on Belle Isle in protest of police brutality on Friday, June 5, 2020. Detroit Free Press
Reuben Faloughi has been in a locker room and on the frontlines of protests. But his lives as a linebacker and as an activist were separate. At Georgia in the early 2010s, he simply played ball.
It was later, at Missouri, where he was a counseling doctoral student, that he found his voice and led a movement that denounced the school’s poor racial climate.
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