Black 14 stands against legislative cuts amid setbacks for University of Wyoming diversity programs

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Black 14 stands against legislative cuts amid setbacks for University of Wyoming diversity programs

by Madelyn Beck, WyoFile Nearly 55 years after a University of Wyoming football coach’s notorious decision to remove 14 young Black men from the team for asking to protest racial injustice, three of them are taking another stand. “In 1969, [t]he Black 14 risked their football careers and educational opportunities to champion social justice, civil rights, and inclusion,” John Griffin, Mel Hamilton and Tony McGee wrote in a post on the group’s web…