Via The Washington Post, an article on athletes’ forceful response to the Uvalde school shooting tragedy:
On the evening of May 26 — two days after the school shooting that claimed 21 lives in Uvalde, Tex., and two days [...]
March
22,
2022
Via YouTube, a TED Talk by point guard Renee Montgomery, winnner of a college national championship at UConn and a pair of WNBA titles with the Minnesota Lynx, who - when racist incidents plagued the country in 2020 - took a step [...]
February
26,
2022
Via The Undefeated, an article on the 55th anniversary of the 1967 Cleveland Summit in which top Black athletes joined together too support boxer Muhammad Ali’s refusal to fight in Vietnam:
NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland [...]
February
14,
2022
Via SI.com, an in-depth article on the NBA's Social Justice Coalition:
The National Basketball Social Justice Coalition’s seeds were planted Aug. 26, 2020, three days after Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by a [...]
February
14,
2022
Via Foreign Policy, a slightly dated article on Enes Kanter's engagement in politics:
Enes Kanter has reemerged on the political stage.
The eleven year NBA veteran made waves after wearing a pair of speakers expressing [...]