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Kellie Wells

Lolo Jones, Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells

Lolo Jones, colorism and the white-male driven media machine

Danielle Belton, Clutch Magazine
OPINION - Lolo Jones is conventionally pretty, biracial, and very light complexioned in a sport that – in the U.S. at least – is dominated by African-American women...
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USA Olympic womens track

Stop asking black track athletes about Lolo Jones

Carrie Healey
OPINION - With all the success these Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells have achieved, is it really appropriate for the media to ask them about Lolo Jones immediately following their race?...
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Dawn Harper, Kellie Wells shine in women's hurdles

John Pye, Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Sally Pearson stood in the rain, hands on head, eyes fixed on a big screen, desperately willing her name to show up first so she wouldn’t b

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