A time to be heard

IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY and pivotal time, Black student-athlete voices are emerging at Stanford. They're coming from Kyla Bryant and Wesley Stephenson of the women's gymnastics team, and from football players Thomas Booker and Jacob Mangum-Farrar. They come from soccer's Kiki Pickett, basketball's Jenna Brown, and track and field's Yinka Braimah and Brielle Smith. They join Maya Anne Crisencia Dodson, a senior on the Cardinal basketball team, as founders of CardinalBLCK, a community of Black student-athletes whose creation is another step toward securing recognition and accountability. Dodson takes on that responsibility as a legacy of Carolyn Anne Dodson, and is proud to share a middle name with her grandmother. A native of the potato farming town of Laurel, Delaware, Carolyn rose early on Aug. She traveled across Maryland's Eastern Shore, over Chesapeake Bay and into Washington, D.C., to join the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.