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Level Playing Field

Each of the four episodes tells a different story from the world of sports to reveal a broader social inequality impacting all of us. In one case, that means following the plight of an NCAA student-athlete to understand what it can tell us about American labor policy - policy that is often shaped to serve the interests of employers in all sorts of industries. In another, that means revisiting a debate over midnight basketball in the 1990s to understand how racial politics warped a debate over funding a youth sports program.

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Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Midnight Basketball

Tue, Sep 14, 2021

An investigation of how the innovative youth program Midnight Basketball League became a pawn in racial debates about the 1994 Crime Bill.

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Awards

  • 2022 - Emmy - Outstanding Sports Documentary Series - nominated

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