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Exactly one week after well-known “shock jock” Don Imus called the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” he was fired by CBS News Radio. The controversy, which simultaneously characterized the women in sexist and racist terms, targeted a team that was runner-up in the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women’s basketball championship. That Scarlet Knights team included eight women of color and two white women. Women’s rights and civil rights organizations immediately came to the Scarlet Knights’ defense. National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy joined civil rights activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to stand in solidarity with the National Congress of Black Women and the National Council of Negro Women to demand termination of Imus’s radio show.
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Hancock, AM. (2011). Intersectionality to the Rescue. In: Solidarity Politics for Millennials. The Politics of Intersectionality. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230120136_2
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