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Last summer, Risa F. Isard, a research fellow with the Laboratory of Inclusion and Diversity in Sport at the University of Massachusetts, was scrolling through Twitter when a thread by WNBA fan Michael McManus (@getdisdance) caught her eye. The thread was about the media’s centering of 2020 No. 1 overall draft pick Sabrina Ionescu (SI)…

Read More Report: White WNBA players received twice as much coverage as Black players in 2020 season

Official Release October 10, 2021 NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2021 – The WNBA announced today that Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi has been voted by fans as the league’s greatest of all time (GOAT). The “Vote for the GOAT” platform was part of the WNBA’s celebration of its landmark 25th season. Taurasi has etched her name across…

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By SHAWN MCFARLAND HARTFORD COURANT  |APR 08, 2021 AT 10:03 AM It’s fitting that Gladys Tantaquidgeon — the late Mohegan elder and pioneer for social justice — will have her legacy continue through the Connecticut Sun and the WNBA, a team and league often on the forefront of equality and equity Tantaquidgeon, who died in 2005 at the age…

Read More Connecticut Sun unveil new jerseys inspired by Mohegan Tribe and late elder and social justice advocate Gladys Tantaquidgeon

By Sopan Deb and Kevin Draper Jan. 6, 2021, 6:34 p.m. ET W.N.B.A. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told CNN over the summer that she would not force Loeffler to sell her stake, even though the league’s players’ union has indicated it does not want her to own the team any longer. Loeffler has said repeatedly that she is unwilling to sell…

Read More Kelly Loeffler Is Done in the Senate. But What About in the W.N.B.A.?

Players have united to depose a sitting senator in Georgia, who has clashed with the Black Lives Matter movement and is an owner of the Atlanta Dream and one of the wealthiest members of Congress. W.N.B.A. players, led by members of the Dream, began wearing T-shirts declaring “Vote Warnock,” a reference to the Democratic preacher running against…

Read More The One Name the W.N.B.A. Won’t Say

In the wake of the shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wis., the Women’s National Basketball Association postponed scheduled games on Wednesday and then again on Thursday, using the time as a “day of reflection” and to recommit to the social justice causes that underpin their season this year.

Read More Women Take the Lead – Again