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She's also a member of Buffalo All-Star Extreme – an all-Black cheer squad that practiced three blocks from the Jefferson Street Tops. Na'kya brings us the story of how she and her fellow ...
The parents of a Black high school cheerleader in Pennsylvania have filed a federal racial discrimination lawsuit claiming peers, coaches, and school officials repeatedly singled out their ...
It had been two years since Johnson became the first Black woman to make the cheerleading squad for Washington’s NFL team. Despite everything she’d endured since, Johnson had come to relish the ritual ...
A lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania family says a Black cheerleader was forced to act like a white cheerleader’s “pet” and crawl on all fours. Getty Images/iStockphoto A competitive cheer team ...
A Black cheerleader at Cumberland Valley High School in Pennsylvania is suing the school district after allegedly being forced to act as a white teammate’s “pet” during a cheerleading trip ...
The anonymous email says the author’s concerns about Black cheer coaches have “fallen on deaf ears from Administration for years.” Moult did not answer specific questions about whether any ...
A federal lawsuit filed by the parents of a Black Pennsylvania cheerleader is accusing their daughter’s teammates, coaches, and other school officials of discriminating against the 16-year-old ...
They never showed up but it showed how the news of a Black cheerleader was spreading on campus and even outside of it. Hurdle was not only TCU’s first Black cheerleader, but he was also the ...
A Black cheerleader at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was allegedly made to pretend to be a white senior cheerleader’s “pet” on an imaginary leash while the ...