Say Her Name

When the WNBA, the Women's National Basketball Association, begins its season later this month,

in the so-called bubble, in Florida, without fans in the seats.

Those words, say Her Name.

We'll be on the back of their Nike warm-up shirts, to honor Brianna Taylor, and countless other women victims of police brutality

and racial violence.

On the front of those shirts, and also on the court itself, will be the words, Black Lives Matter.

The WNBA and the players union are dedicating this season, this strange, shortened, inisolation season, to social justice.

It was the last thing on my mind that was playing basketball, because we're all people first.

I'm Tremaine Lee, and this is Into America.

Pro athletes across all sports are raising their voices in this moment.

In the WNBA, superstar Maya Moore is sitting out a second season to fight for prison reform, after helping to free a man named Jonathan Irons.

Who was 18 when he was convicted and given a 50-year sentence for burglary and assault.

This 4th of July weekend, he is a free man.

Today, we go into the basketball bubble, with another star in the WNBA, Gabby Williams, who was making her presence and her activism, felt on the court and off.

So a lot of people were disentertainment, but now you have to listen to a speak.

I have to live, we experience this every day.

Gabby Williams is a power forward for the Chicago sky.

She was a college basketball star for Connecticut, pick 4th in the 2018 draft.

She's French American, and like many women players, she competes overseas in the offseason.

When I spoke to her, she just arrived in Florida.

The single site, where all 12 teams, all the players will train, live, and play for the next 3 or 4 months.

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