In New England, the lack of non-white ADs and football coaches is troubling.

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There’s a stark racial inequity among leaders in New England college sports
For 40 years, Charlie Titus witnessed up close one of the starkest racial inequities in American sports.

From the summer of 1980, when he became UMass Boston’s first athletic director, until he retired in June, Titus could count on one hand the number of Black men and women running intercollegiate athletic departments in New England.

He watched year after year as universities that profit from the performances of Black student-athletes passed over qualified Black candidates to manage their athletic departments. He pushed for change, but it came, at best, in baby steps.

“It amazes me that these barriers have not been broken down by now,” Titus said. “It’s a prime example of what institutional and systemic racism look like.”

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