I’ve never had good timing. I buy stocks before a crash, I start binging a new TV series just as it’s erased from public consciousness, but, for once, my timing was impeccable. On February 1st, my coauthors (Josh Pitts and John Johnson) and I published a paper in The Review of Black Political Economy. The paper aimed to determine if there is racial bias in the hiring process of NFL Head Coaches. That same day, former Miami Dolphins Head Coach, Brian Flores, filed a lawsuit against the NFL and three NFL franchises alleging racial discrimination in the hiring process of NFL head coaches. Talk about good timing…

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