Centering Blackness in the WNBA – deepa sivarajan

Alyssa Thomas of the Connecticut Sun taking a free throw with one hand under the ball and the other on the side.

Five WNBA stars to watch in the 2024 playoffs

The last (for now) in my series on women’s basketball in the U.S.

Natasha Cloud is in front of a line of marchers, some wearing masks, carrying signs in support of Black Lives Matter

The WNBA and the fight for racial justice

WNBA players have long organized and protested for Black & brown lives

A life-size sculpture of Caitlin Clark dribbling a basketball, made entirely of butter, on display alongside other sculptures.

Whiteness and misogynoir still hold too much power in women’s basketball

Delving into the Caitlin Clark discourse

Black and white photo of seven Black women who were players on the New York Girls, all wearing white blouses with black skirts and a black bow around their necks,with one Black man who may have been their coach. One of the women is holding a basketball with the words “N.Y. Champions 1910” written on it.

Women’s basketball is founded on the achievements & leadership of Black women

And apparently we need to talk about it