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The Bears will celebrate Black History Month across all official team channels throughout February. Fans are encouraged to follow along and learn more about Bears and Chicago Black history.
Feature stories will focus on Bears players past and present who attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Bears players such as Willie Thrower and Eddie Macon who have been Black history pioneers; the involvement of Gale Sayers and Willie Galimore in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s; and former Bears executive Rod Graves, who is currently the director of the Fritz Pollard Alliance.
Other scheduled content includes:
• A video tour of DuSable Museum of African American History. Former Bears players Jerry Azumah and Rashied Davis will take a tour of the museum led by director of education and programs Dr. Kim Dulaney. The Bears and Bears Care also partnered with DuSable Museum on Juneteenth to raise $19,000 for the museum. The DuSable Museum of Afr
Deshaun Watson is still worried about the games in front of him.
A trip to Indianapolis is on tap for next Sunday, before closing out 2020 with games against the Bengals and Titans at NRG Stadium. But in the aftermath of Sunday s 36-7 drubbing in Chicago, he also acknowledged that team Chairman and CEO Cal McNair has consulted with him about the upcoming changes at general manager and head coach. I mean, they just put a lot of trust in me and what things he wants and what I want, and just as a whole, as an organization where we want to go forward from here, Watson said. We ve got to make decisions and go from there. But yeah, that was pretty much it. A lot of respect between me and Mr. McNair.