Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us

by Alison Mariella Désir

Corbitt was correcting history as it was happening, but he was not being heard. We need to hear him now. When we include more Black people and other marginalized groups in the larger story of running, a narrative emerges that opens the sport to more people.

where Blackness is seen not as a threat or even a statement, but commonplace and normal.

Nubian Square, the center of Black culture in Boston, located in the neighborhood of Roxbury, home to a large Black and brown population.

Black people are achieving firsts, yet at the same time we have a long history in the sport.