Sue Bird's jersey topped sales during the 2020 WNBA regular season suggesting the veteran Seattle Storm star, and other future Hall of Famers such as Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury (second in sales) and Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks (third in sales), are gaining long overdue mainstream recognition. But what about the league's young stars like Breanna Stewart and A'ja Wilson, who will battle in this year's WNBA Finals for the Storm and Las Vegas Aces, respectively? Will culturall...
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Originally published in "The Hard Screen Newsletter" in June 2020, "Why America Doesn't Deserve Sports Right Now" delves into the historic and systemic racial injustice, police brutality and inequality Black Americans face in the United States that has necessitated athletes and other public figures use their platforms to spur social change.
Kelly Loeffler is an affront to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'Dream,' everything John Lewis stood for, and the ethos on which the Atlanta WNBA franchise was built.
Mainstream media has institutionalized the erasure of the WNBA and other Black women athletes competing in team sports. But inclusion is easy, rendering the omissions a choice. What will it take to eradicate the scourge of discriminatory racist, homophobic treatment?
Fans, pundits, media organization, leagues, and teams have pushed the idea that sports (entertainment, fun, pastime) should be separate from society (the system in which we collectively live) -- an idea which falsely implies that these entities have ever been anything but inextricably linked.
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