by admin | May 18, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Seattle Storm earned some glitzy hardware this weekend in honor of their dominant WNBA championship victory last season. Ahead of their first game of the 2021 season, Seattle players were presented with their 2020 championship rings, which commemorate their fourth...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
When the WNBA decided to operate in Bradenton, Florida, last July, it marked the start of a season like no other, one that interrogated the careers, identities and principles of every player inside the league’s campus-style bubble. It was an emotionally grueling...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA has long been at the forefront of social justice campaigns, but the efforts in Washington are often at another level. In the past 12 months, the Mystics led efforts that culminated in three league games being postponed after Jacob Blake was shot seven times...
by admin | Apr 27, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
She laced up her boots and sped on to the skating rink. A seemingly innocuous act, except in 1952 during a time of racial segregation in the US, this young Black woman departed the rink with a broken arm, her actions having infuriated White men intent on her...
by admin | Jan 12, 2021 | SEW
Elizabeth Williams of the Atlanta Dream helped galvanize opposition to one of her team’s owners, Senator Kelly Loeffler, who has criticized Black Lives Matter. But the Capitol riot underscored the work ahead. Read the story in full at the New York Times.
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