How Black women served a critical role in securing Brittney Griner’s release
How Black women served a critical role in securing Brittney Griner’s release
Jotaka Eaddy was sitting at her home in Washington on Thursday morning when she got a text message from a friend: Brittney Griner was coming home, it said.
Eaddy paused, then reread the message as a flood of emotions — relief, joy, pride— ran through her.
The founder of the Win With Black Women collective, Eaddy had been among thousands of women across the country battling to bring Griner, a…