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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.
Race-norming made it more difficult for Black retirees to get compensation for brain injuries suffered in the league.
The NFL has vowed to stop race-norming, a two-tiered scoring system which set a different benchmark for Black and white retired players making brain injury claims.
The norms, which were created in 1990, were used to determine which of the 20,000 former players filing brain injury claims would be eligible for awards from the NFL on a roughly $1 billion dollar settlement, the Associated Press reported.
The National Football League has vowed to eliminate the process of treating minority players differently when it comes to treating concussions, according to recent lawsuit settlement reviewed by The Associated Press.
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