Earlier this week the NFL and Roc Nation announced they would gift $400,000 to two Chicago organizations. But that activism has struck a nerve.
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The Crushers Club has operated since 2013 in Englewood, offering boxing, music and other programs, was given a $200,000 grant from the NFL's Inspire Change initiative.
In a now deleted tweet, the organization's founder, Sally Hazelgrove, posted photos in 2016 captioned "Another crusher let me cut his dreads off. It's symbolic of change and their desire to have a better life."
The photos resurfaced on social media this week.
Hazlegrove said she wishes she had put more thought into her post.
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"I could see how it could be interpreted as insensitive now that its come out a few years later. I regret not having the forethought and being more sensitive, and that I was not more careful," Hazelgrove said.
Kobe Richardson was one of the teens who was pictured, he said Hazelgrove is a maternal figure and he asked her to cut his hair.
The pictures have been taken down.
Roc Nation and the NFL have not commented.