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NFL Players Hold Up Hands in Solidarity with Ferguson

HeadlineAug 20, 2014

The protests in Ferguson have reached the National Football League. The players on the secondary lineup for the Washington team took to the field Monday night with their hands in the air in a gesture of solidarity with the Ferguson protests. The team is facing a racial controversy of its own with two top football commentators now joining the ranks of those to avoid the name R-dsk-ns because it is a racial slur.

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