“I don’t think we should be talking about basketball today,” Bucks player George Hill said at a press conference. Much of the attention around these actions has settled itself on what the NBA players are doing. For the record, WNBA players still haven’t reached parity when it comes to their wages. WNBA players, according to CNBC, earn just 20 per cent of an NBA player’s minimum salary. Often times, even when Black women are at the forefront of these movements, once those movements take off, they find themselves left behind.

Source: Huffington Post August 28, 2020 22:39 UTC