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Greg Moore is an award-winning sports columnist and documentarian who has covered Arizona sports since 2017, including the NBA Finals, WNBA Finals, NFL playoffs, MLB playoffs, the College...
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Jun 7, 2017 · Learn more about Greg Moore, who joined azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic in 2017. Find out his favorite sports movies, athletes, walk-up song and Ali-Foreman experience.
- Gates Chose to Connect and Unite The Crowd
- The Audience Hung onto His Every Word
- I Was Angry at Gates' Response in 2009
- But 1 Speech from Gates Turned Me Around
- This Is How He Influences The World
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Lessons in maturity and magnanimity were on full display as Battinto Batts, the dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, interviewed Gates on the last day of April at the theater formerly known as Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium. Batts asked how Gates’s PBS show “Finding Your Roots” got its start. He might as well ...
Applause. “I don’t choose my friends by their ideology,” he said at another point, referencing Ben Carson. “The politicization of even the idea of a friendship in America disgusts me. You are all intelligent people. We have the right to be Republican, Democrat, independent. We have the right to disagree with each other without being cancelled.” Mor...
I couldn’t have imagined anyone cheering for Gates in 2009. I was working the news desk in Kansas City when he was arrested in his own house. I was 30 years old, watching reports come in from The Associated Press. A white woman had called the police, saying there were two suspicious Black men in her neighborhood. Gates, who is Black, and his driver...
About 13 years later in Tempe, Gates turned me around with one speech. He knew then what so many still struggle to understand: The enemy is racism. “Finding Your Roots” brings people together by making history real through stories. It also uncovers things people might not want to know. To this, Gates says simply that he’s inventing a genre and a co...
Gates wasn’t too worried about speaking for one side or the other in a debate over race. He wasn’t too worried about what people such as myself might have said about him. Gates, simply, was going to speak for himself. It looks like he’s influencing the world while he’s doing it. And he’s influenced me already to look for my long, lost uncle. More a...
Greg Moore, an opinion writer for The Arizona Republic, shares how the Harvard professor and genealogist influenced him with his stories and perspective on race. He reflects on his own experience of covering Gates' arrest in 2009 and his change of heart after hearing him speak in 2022.
Greg Moore covers sports news and opinions for The Arizona Republic and other media outlets. See his articles on the Phoenix Suns, Cardinals, Jayden Daniels and more.
Apr 8, 2024 · 2024-04-08 - Greg Moore Columnist . Arizona Republic . USA TODAY NETWORK. It was loud. Loud like a freight train screaming past your window, which was fitting since the Purdue Boilermakers were being introduced.
May 26, 2020 · Greg Moore is a sports columnist for The Arizona Republic who covers sports, race and culture. He talks about his journey from news to sports, his views on Kyler Murray, DeAndre Hopkins and Isaiah Simmons, and his favorite story about Satchel Paige and Cool Papa Bell.
