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Level Playing Field Season 1 Episodes

  • 2021-2021
  • 1 Season
  • Documentary, Sports
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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.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

4 Episodes 2021 - 2021

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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Episode 2

Misclassified

Tue, Sep 21, 2021

A look at the NCAA's creation of the term "student-athlete" and how it connects to the widespread misclassification of workers today.

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Episode 3

Down the Backstretch

Tue, Sep 28, 2021

A look at the policy shift that has made horseracing's most vital workers vulnerable and laid bare the need for immigration reform.

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Episode 4

The Assist

Tue, Oct 5, 2021

Sports and activism collide when WNBA players push Georgia residents to challenge voter suppression and vote for Reverend Raphael Warnock.

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