Black History Month: Making hockey accessible to everyone

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

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4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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NBCS Chicago is celebrating Black History Month with special episodes to discuss the impact of the black athlete in sports. Chicago Sun Times feature story writer Evan F. Moore sits down with former Blackhawk and analyst for NBCS Chicago Jamal Mayers to discuss being a black athlete in hockey and what he's doing to help grow hockey in non traditional hockey communities.(3:00) - Why was it important for Jamal to write about his life in his book(10:58) - Ray Emery's impact on hockey(16:00) - Describes what the NHL and the Blackhawks are doing to grow the game(21:37) - The Devante Smith-Pelly incident at the United Center(36:10) - Reasons that hockey hasn't addressed social issues(40:06) - Addressing ignorance in hockeySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
0:09.0	This is podcast producer for NBC Sports Chicago, Tony Gill.
0:13.8	And this is another episode of our Black History series.
0:19.4	Our last episode, Lawrence Holmes interviewed Doug Glanville.
0:23.5	If you haven't checked that out, it's on all of our podcast feeds.
0:28.3	How you got to do we just kind of scroll a couple episodes.
0:30.8	And there it is.
0:31.5	It was a very, very great interview.
0:33.6	And this week we have another fantastic interview with the sometimes Evan F. Moore interviewing former Black Hawk, Jamal Mayors.
0:42.3	So before we get to the interview, we have Evan here.
0:45.7	Evan, thanks again for conducting an interview.
0:48.8	I appreciate your time, man.
0:50.1	Well, so, man.
0:50.7	Thank you for having me.
0:51.8	No, no problem.
0:53.1	As you were doing the interview, what were your thoughts, you know, about the interview
0:58.4	and why it was, like, important to have this interview?
1:03.4	Well, it's important, I mean, outside of what's been going on in the world
1:07.1	with social justice and other issues and how hockey has kind of been kind of
1:13.3	been relatively unscathed up until the whole thing with a former black-haust draft pick and
1:20.0	minor league of Kim Alu and with the coach of the highisaw at the time and that all came about
1:26.7	and I felt like well
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