‘Bravery, courage, trust and spirit’: Memphis Inner City Rugby looks beyond sport

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'Bravery, courage, trust and spirit': Memphis Inner City Rugby looks beyond sport

Pioneering nonprofit recognised for work to reduce racial inequalities – and to send talent into the US college game

A programme which uses rugby to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Memphis, Tennessee, was named on Monday as a winner in the Beyond Sport Global Awards.

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We had to cancel a rugby season like everybody else … over the summer and spring we delivered thousands of bags of food

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