The National College Players Association (NCPA) has filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, asserting that more than 350 Division I colleges are violating Black students’ civil rights by imposing a collusive athlete compensation prohibition.
The organization says that because a high percentage of Black students are also college athletes at these schools, the industrywide compensation limit causes a disparate impact on Black college students.
The NCPA says its position is bolstered by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion in the NCAA v. Alston lawsuit, which stated in part, “… the NCAA and its member colleges are suppressing the pay of student athletes who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenues for colleges every year … But the student athletes who generate the revenues, many of whom are African…
