Needed: More African-Americans in the pressbox

According to moviemaker Spike Lee, African-Americans are not currently represented in the sports writing industry in proportion to how many African-Americans play sports.

And it's true. Looking at both the NFL and NBA, there are a large number of African-Americans on the field or court. But look within the pressbox. How many African-Americans are found there? Few.

"Right now there's a dearth of representation of African Americans in the sports
industry as far, as journalism is concerned.
Seventy-five per cent of the
players in the NFL are black, an even higher number of African Americans play
basketball, but, if you look in the press box and the magazines and the
newsrooms, you don't have that representation." ~ Lee

As a possible solution to this problem, Lee presented an initiative to Morehouse College. He was able to encourage them to open a new school of journalism in an effort to help newspapers reach an equality between the number of African-American sports writers and players. The school's open for students next semester.

Lee's movies have been brilliant, this idea is too.