playoff game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday, but the Bucks weren’t there. Soon the Magic players were gone, too. postponed games involving four more teams amid rumblings that at least some of their players planned to walk out, too. Within hours, the job action spread to other sports: The Milwaukee Brewers decided not to play, and so did the Washington Mystics, leading to the postponement of three W.N.B.A. Not after they had spent weeks — months, really — trying to bring attention to the issue of racial injustice, to the fears that many of them feel every day.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2020 20:26 UTC