Collected Item: “NBA for Social Justice”
Give your story a title.
NBA for Social Justice
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photograph, found it on USAToday.com
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
The photograph on the right shows Trae Young, a Atlanta Hawks player, protesting at a Black Lives Matter event in June of 2020. I choose this picture because I am an Atlanta Hawks fan but more importantly because of the support provided by the NBA for social justice. Since the protests have started the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) have fully committed in supporting the social justice movement. Even with the NBA season over with now the spotlight to fight social justice has still continued. The NBA will continue to donate and provide support for education to minority communities. The NBA and NBPA have also made it their mission to address the lack of diversity in team management. Finally they have also made it their mission to help address police and criminal justice change in America. Protests are a bigger influence than people think and it is good to see big associations willing to make a difference for social justice.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#BlackLivesMatters, #SocialJustice, #Protest, #NBA, #NBPA, #AtlantaHawks, #PoliceReform, #CriminalJusticeReform, #ASU, #HST485
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201031031010/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/10/30/nba-social-justice-work-election-next-season/6065580002/
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Chris Landsberger of the Oklahoman/USA Today Network
Give this story a date.
2020-10-30