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NFL pledges to halt 'race-norming'

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The NFL yesterday pledged to halt a practice called "race-norming" to determine payouts in concussion cases.

The Associated Press reports the practice assumes Black players start out with lower cognitive function than their white peers.

The decision came after a pair of Black players filed a civil rights lawsuit and a group of NFL families dropped 50,000 petitions at a federal courthouse.

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