Shannon Ryan: Racist messages sent to Illinois star Kofi Cockburn and Ohio State’s E.J....

[ASFN Admin]

CHICAGO — As Loyola Chicago revealed itself as a national power, beating team after team, mail addressed to specific dorms and to specific players arrived. The letters were threatening, written to Black players and signed by the Ku Klux Klan. “I was (scared),” star guard Jerry Harkness told the Chicago Tribune in 2018. “It was addressed to the dorm on Sheridan Road. I started thinking, ‘These ...

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