MU`s Martin on social justice, the pandemic and basketball
(WorldNews Sport)

On a Friday morning zoom call, Missouri basketball coach Cuonzo Martin was scheduled to discuss the return of three of the team`s most productive players after they tested the NBA waters. At first, he did. But Martin, whose voice has spread awareness on social justice efforts around the country over the past few months, also spoke at great lengths about the wealth gap in the United States and paid tribute to civil rights leader John Lewis, who died July 17. Near the end of the interview, he played the beginning of Sam Cooke`s `A Change is Gonna Come.` As Cooke sang, `I was born by the river,` Martin closed his eyes and let Cooke`s voice ring through the call. He said that he was going to...