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Everett Fitzhugh on Being NHL’s First Full-Time Black Broadcaster
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8:11Now PlayingOne of North America’s four major sports leagues is the National Hockey League.
The league’s players are 97% white, and the announcer booths are even more exclusive. The NHL has existed since 1917 and it currently fields 32 teams. But it wasn’t until this season that a team employed a Black full-time broadcaster to announce its games.
Thirty-two-year-old Everett Fitzhugh is the radio play-by-play voice of the Seattle Kraken, the expansion team that just began playing this fall.
BNC’s Anthony Amey caught up with the man who broke through the glass ceiling with the league’s newest franchise.
All this and more on “BNC Live.”
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