WNBA player Brittney Griner said she’s “blown away” that critics have called her un-America for kneeling during the national anthem. “The View” co-host Joy Behar on Thursday asked Griner to respond to those who believed she acted carelessly in Russia and didn’t deserve America’s help because she had knelt during the national anthem. “Everyone has […]
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Baton Rouge Police still looking for answers in Brittney Mills’ shooting death
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A little over nine years after her murder, the search for Brittney Mills’ killer has grown cold. The mother and sister of Mills visit her Baton Rouge gravesite often. “The family just wants justice, the family wants to know the truth, the family wants to know why,” said Dr. Tia […]
There’s One Part of Brittney Griner’s Account of Life in Russian Prison That Really Stands Out
I would watch a show where Tucker Carlson interviews Brittney Griner. It might be fun to see the cable-TV star squirm before the openly lesbian 6-foot-7 basketball player as she schools America’s leading Kremlin apologist on the realities of Vladimir Putin’s Russia that he missed during his slack-jawed tour of Moscow’s lavish subway stations and […]
WNBA star Brittney Griner details conditions in frigid Russian prison: ‘There’s no rest’
More than one year after she was freed from a nine-month prison sentence in Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner is opening up about her experience in the penal colony. Griner, who wrote about her experience in the memoir “Coming Home” set to be released on May 7, shared some of the details with ABC’s Robin Roberts […]