In light of recent events around the U.S. and additional community feedback, MLQ announced yesterday that the MLQ Marketing and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Departments will review the name and branding of the Boston Night Riders. We do want to take this time to acknowledge fault in not taking action in 2015, upon the creation
This summer would have been MLQ’s sixth season. In 2019, we implemented significant changes to further a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, most notably the introduction of the Coleman Clause—a policy to ensure that individual franchises were recruiting women, transgender, non-binary and other gender non-conforming leaders—and mandatory training via Athlete Ally—a course aimed to
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As we move forward with our goals in the years to come, we at MLQ consider it absolutely vital to maintain a safe place for all people to volunteer, manage, coach, play and spectate. We would never claim ourselves faultless in these pursuits, and ask for your help, advice and patience as we continue to
The MLQ Directors have made the unfortunate but necessary decision to indefinitely postpone the 2020 MLQ regular season, 2020 MLQ Championship and all in-person MLQ events. The decision was not made lightly, and took into account all available public health information as well as regulations on the federal, state and local levels. We had previously