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How University of Missouri Football Protest Changed College Sports Forever

Five years after players protested the university's response to racism on campus by refusing to play, the reverberations of that act are still being felt in Columbia—and nationwide.

We've seen college athletes speak out against injustice a lot lately but that is nothing new at the University of Missouri. Students at the university held protests which led to the removal of former president Tim Wolfe over his handling of racist incidents on campus. So how do the incidents and response at Missouri parallel with what we've seen across the country?

Sports Illustrated host Kaitlin O'Toole is joined by Dr. Ty-Ron Douglas associate professor in Mizzou’s department of educational leadership and policy analysis for insight.

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