In a time when rights movements have taken center stage, what better opportunity than to examine why the National Hockey League remains the only professional sports circuit without a Black head coach. True, way back in the last century — 1998, to be exact — the Chicago Blackhawks chose to hire Dirk Graham to be the first African-American bench boss in NHL history. His tenure lasted all of 59 games and guess what? There hasn’t been another Black [...]
