One of the nation’s leading human rights activists, He has a long history of standing up to social injustice. He had a front-row view as, like his father, basketball legend and head coach of the New York Knicks, Joe Lapchick courageously signed the NBA’s first African-American player, Nat ‘Sweewater’ Clifton. Richard is president of the National Consortium for Academic and Sports and established The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES), which recently produced the 2020 National Football League Racial and Gender Report Card.