Black Male Student-Athletes and Racial Inequities in College Sports

The University of Southern California issued the following news release:

A new report from USC finds that while Black men make up over half of student-athletes on scholarship, they comprise just 2.4 percent of undergraduates at Power Five athletic conference universities.

Provost Professor Shaun Harper of the USC Race and Equity Center studied 65 universities for the third edition of "Black Male Student-Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division 1 College Sports."

"If you're a Black man, you have a better chance of graduating if you don't play," said Harper, Provost Professor in the USC Rossier School of Education and USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. "Young Black athletes are seduced by prospects of full-ride scholarships and the chance to go pro. But graduation rates expose the 'athlete advantage'...