Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Outside the Lines
Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Outside the Lines and Author
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Steve Delsohn
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Fake Classes for Student Athletes at UNC A scathing report out this week details a 20-year cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina. Thousands of students have taken fake classes in the African-American studies department. Many of those students were athletes, basketball and football players who couldn’t make the grades required to stay on their teams.
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Spike Lee and John David Washington on ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Could this be the year the Academy finally nominates Spike Lee for Best Director or Best Picture? ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is looking like a contender. The film is based on the true story of black police officer Ron Stallworth, who went undercover with the KKK in the 1970s.
LA Observed
As teachers strike, political heavyweights bide their time The L.A. teachers' strike is now well underway and both sides are waiting to see who will budge. Others are looking to their elected leaders, from L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to newly minted Governor Gavin Newsom, for help. But can they make a difference, especially with an issue that has so much at stake?