“That’s what you might call positional segregation,” said Cyrus Mehri, co-founder of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, a nonprofit organization that champions diversity in the NFL. “Just as we ...

It took a winding path of organic integration, segregation and reintegration that can be trimmed to a truth: With its actions, the NFL has always placed conditions on inclusion. Exclusion has ...

Troy Vincent, the executive vice president of football operations at the NFL, reflects on the legacy of Jackie Robinson on ...