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How Washington Mystics Point Guard Natasha Cloud Became the WNBA’s Unofficial Minister of Social Justice

Natasha Cloud finds the video, lowers the volume, and hands you her phone. It’s a racist screed on Snapchat, yapped in a school cafeteria by a teenage girl who is white. It’s vile, pure filth—made even more disturbing because the girl is sitting next to a Black classmate. About the fifth N-word in, you hand the phone back to the 29-year-old point guard of the Washington Mystics.

“We had to handle it,” Cloud begins.

Handle it?

“We couldn’t let it go.”

Cloud and her wife, professional softball player Aleshia Ocasio, researched the girl and discovered that her mother runs a gym owned by a good friend. Read More

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