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.
Caitiin Clark’s public unmasking leaves the WNBA in a slow-motion Milli Vanilli moment, exposing the unearned currency of its manufactured basketball star.
Black women creating spaces for ourselves and gathering with intention inevitably draws surveillance and scrutiny born from white discomfort.
One basketball lover and WNBA fan says Caitlin Clark is "mishandling a career and a platform very few athletes in any sport are ever handed."
The WNBA’s growth has been powered by connections between players and fans. Now players and fans are negotiating where familiarity ends, and intrusiveness begins.
What Aleshea Harris’s Is God Is makes plain about Black femicide, the Black church, and a film canon that has spent decades asking Black women to read their own endurance as holiness.
Aleshea Harris breaks from the cinematic tradition that has spent decades requiring Black women to forgive our way back to grace.
From an erroneous Threads takedown to pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells, Black journalists have always been a target.
Caitlin Clark is never beating the MAGA allegations because her actions show she is everything Black WNBA fans have accused her of being.
Players now receive new family-planning benefits that require fewer years of service and now extend to their partners and spouses.
In this column, Nicole A. Childers discusses why it’s incumbent on the WNBA and the Indiana Fever to protect its Black players.
After watching her most recent press conference, it's become clear that Cathy Engelbert has not learned from past mistakes.
An angel’s dream has been fulfilled now that Angel Reese, the former Chicago Sky star, is headed to the Atlanta Dream.