About Nicky Childers
Nicky Childers is an award-winning broadcast news executive and investigative journalist based in Los Angeles whose career spans nearly three decades across network television, public radio, and digital media. She is is currently working on a memoir about her journey from foster care to the Ivy League and into the upper echelons of American journalism.
A manufactured “great white hope” media narrative shouldn’t overshadow the WNBA's historical record of its golden age.
This Black August, we take a look at the Black women political prisoners whose sacrifices the movement often leaves out.
OPINION: The most visible women’s sports league, built by Black women, is now a staging ground for unwinding the law behind its existence.
OPINION: In just one game, the WNBA protected white players while leaving Black players and refs exposed to a growing threat it keeps ignoring.
Angel Reese’s Barbie night, the Cleveland Sirens’ big reveal, and Cheryl Reeve’s trans rights t-shirt show a bright future is within reach.
The five-game suspension of a Seattle Storm co-owner highlights the deep imbalance in how the WNBA administers discipline.
From a record-setting crowd to Obama photo ops and Cathy Engelbert dodging accountability, this All-Star weekend was one for the books.
Sandy Brondello’s “protected species” comment exposes the severe lack of sideline protection for Black players in a league that refuses to hire Black women coaches.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin “Contusion” Clark has locked herself into a grievance spiral, constantly gaslighting her fans, the media, and the general public.
National Watermelon Month celebrates a refreshing treat, but the history of the popular fruit reveals how a symbol of Black liberation and economic success was transformed into a racist caricature.
From Alyssa Thomas to Skylar Diggins to The King Center, every new controversy illustrates that the WNBA still struggles to protect Black women.
Congressional Republicans are twisting legal frameworks to force the WNBA into a strategic retreat, mirroring corporate attacks on diversity while turning the hardwood into a political proxy war.