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COLORS Podcast: Super Bowl Champion Doc Walker discusses how to beat racism

On the latest edition of COLORS — A Dialogue on Race in America, with Chris Core and J.J. Green: Rick “Doc” Walker, who won a Super Bowl with the Washington Football Team, discusses his views on defeating racism in the NFL and the U.S. as whole.

Previous guests on COLORS include Dorothy Gilliam, the first African American female reporter at the Washington Post, Ernie Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine, James Brown of CBS Sports, Sports Columnist Christine Brennan and former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler.

All episodes of COLORS are available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

2026 National Book Festival celebrates the enduring power of books

More than 80,000 people registered for tickets to the 26th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival, a celebration of books, authors and storytelling in D.C. on Saturday. The festival featured more than 80 authors, who signed books and participated in lectures and moderated conversations. Among them was D.C. native and debut novelist Bsrat Mezghebe, who had attended the festival as a reader for years and was there for the first time as an author. “I am thrilled. I am honored,” Mezghebe said.
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