The National Newspaper Awards committee has dropped a sportswriters’ prize named for a Globe columnist who ridiculed minority athletes as yelping “squaws” and “coloured gals.” Organizers had pledged to be more sensitive to “equity seeking groups.”
The National Newspaper Awards committee has dropped a sportswriters’ prize named for a Globe columnist who ridiculed minority athletes as yelping “squaws” and “coloured gals.” Organizers had pledged to be more sensitive to “equity seeking groups.”