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Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The NFL, GENYOUth, Fuel Up to Play 60 and Reigning Champs Experiences (RCX) announced the return of GENYOUth's NFL FLAG-In-Schools (FIS) and the opening of the program's national application for the 2021-2022 school year. Starting today, educators can apply for a FREE NFL FIS kit to enhance their physical education curriculum and equipment. Applications will close Wednesday, May 19th. The NFL, GENYOUth, Fuel Up to Play 60 and Reigning Champs Experiences (RCX) announced today the return of GENYOUth’s NFL FLAG-In-...

Highpoint, Native Lands parks teach downstream lessons Jim McClure But, oh, the sights you see at the top are worth navigating those grades. The rewards of all that effort — seemingly thankless when you’re in the middle of those climbs — are indicative of the hard work that led to the acquisition of these hilltop vistas in the first place. But what resulted is worth those fights. Lawsuits. Eminent domain proceedings. Political opportunists. It took trench warfare to secure those hilltops. Fifteen years ago, York County’s government and allies were in middle of a battle with private la...

When Native Americans protested the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, a Lincolnite joined the protest. He started his mission there, and then he kept going.  Leo Yankton, a Native American activist, received the Fulfilling the Dream award at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s MLK Commemorative Celebration on Jan. 28 for his efforts to break down the stigmatization of indigenous people.  “I would have to accept [the award] thinking that I will earn this. I will keep continuing to make efforts to earn this,” Yankton said in his acceptance speech.  Yankton is part of the ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the way recent events are helping Americans come to terms with our checkered past.  Twenty-something years ago, I was chatting with a college professor at Prescott Park when the topic turned to American slavery. I noted, having recently interviewed historian Valerie Cunningham, that the first enslaved African in New Hampshire had arrived at this very spot in 1645.  Slavery is "a Southern thing" “That can’t be true,” my scholarly companion replied, or something to that effect. He seemed offended by the very idea. “There wa...

Daniel—a prominent activist and fourth-generation runner, who is also a member of the Runner’s World Runners Alliance ambassador network—saw races as an obvious place to make land acknowledgments. She has researched land acknowledgements for years by talking with elders and community advocates. In the process, she created a guide and toolkit that race directors can use, for free, to create land acknowledgments for their events. (You can find that guide here) When it comes to making land acknowledgments, here are some important components to remember: Understanding and using appropriat...