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PHILADELPHIA -- A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that challenged "race-norming" in dementia tests for retired NFL players, a practice that some say makes it harder for Black athletes to ...

PHILADELPHIA — Black retired football players who were denied payments for dementia in the NFL’s $1-billion concussion settlement can seek to be retested or have their claims rescored to eliminate ...

Under the settlement, the NFL has insisted on using a scoring algorithm on the dementia testing that assumes Black men start with lower cognitive skills. Former NFL player Ken Jenkins exits the ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The class counsel for thousands of retired players suing the NFL pledged Monday to try to remove race as a factor in dementia testing, but lawyers for Black players demanded he release ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in the $1 billion settlement of concussion ...

Race-norming practices have been in use since the 1990s Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment and breaking news for the brand since ...

Brooke Vaughn began noticing dramatic behavioral changes in her husband, Clarence, who played in two Super Bowls for the Washington Football Team, about eight years ago. She was startled by them and ...

The NFL has vowed to stop the use of "race-norming," a practice that dates back to 1990. The two-tiered scoring system assumed that Black players have a lower cognitive function than white colleagues.