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Theresa Runstedtler, PhD is an award-winning scholar of African American history whose research focuses on the intersection of race, masculinity, labor, and sport. She is the author of Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (UC Press, 2012), a transnational biography that explores the first African American world heavyweight champion’s legacy as a Black sporting hero and anti-colonial icon in places as far-flung as Sydney, London, Cape Town, Manila, Paris, Havana, and Mexico City. Her book won the 2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Prize from the Northeast Black Studies Association. Her second book, titled Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA (forthcoming in 2023 with Bold Type Books, Hachette), examines how Black players transformed the professional hoops game, both on and off the court, in the 1970s. She has written for Time.com and the LA Review of Books, and shared her expertise on the History Channel, Al Jazeera America, Vox.com, NPR, and international radio outlets including the BBC and CBC. Originally from Ontario, Canada, she is a professor at American University and lives in Baltimore with her husband and son.
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    • Black Ball

    • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
    • Written by: Theresa Runstedtler
    • Narrated by: Xenia Willacey
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 2023-03-07
    • Language: English
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