BOSTON — Days after hundreds of National Football League players who took a knee or linked arms during the national anthem helped inject a healthy dose of politics into sports, representatives from New England's five major league sports franchises gathered at Fenway Park to launch a new anti-racism initiative.
Dubbed "Take the Lead," the initiative features a public service announcement — played for the first time on Fenway Park's video scoreboard Thursday — which state Senator Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester) noted sends a "unified message to every fan attending games throughout this season."
