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Black female athletes do basketball, track.(NEWSWATCH)
Since Title IX's enactment in 1972, athletic participation by African-American females has risen 955%. Great news, but 9 of 10 of the women are participating in either basketball or track and field.
Why the concentration in those two sports? Others like rowing, soccer and lacrosse, which have seen the greatest increases of female athletes, require monetary and time investments that many black athletes cannot make, said Emmett Gill Jr., assistant professor at Rutgers University's school of social work, who studies gender and race in sports.
"Oftentimes females of color, specifically black females, don't have the ...
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