The National Football League has agreed to end the practice of race norming when evaluating brain damage in players. The practice assumed Black players entered the league with lower IQs than their white counterparts. This made it more difficult for Black players to show a decline in cognitive function and more challenging to qualify for benefits from the billion-dollar concussion settlement of 2013. BNC Legal Expert Candace Kelley and former Super Bowl Champion Will Blackmon join "Start Your Day" with Sharon Reed and Mike Hill to discuss the end of the practice.
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