Events › Author Talk: Douglas Stark - Race and Resistance in Boston

Join us for this local author talk about Boston sports and race.

With the release of his 2025 book, Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History, editor Douglas Stark will discuss the thought process behind this latest project. 

Boston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence in Boston over the years as they advocated for racial integration and transformed their sports into modes of racial pride, resistance, and cultural expression. Race and Resistance in Boston goes beyond the familiar topics associated with the city’s premiere professional teams, the Red Sox and the Celtics, to recount the long history of Black sporting culture in the city.

Douglas Stark is a museum professional who has worked in sports museums including the Tennis Hall of Fame, USGA Museum, and Basketball Hall of Fame. His career has focused on making history more engaging, relevant, and accessible to a diverse audience. He has written about basketball history.