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.
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.
The public demonization of WNBA star Alyssa Thomas shows how society treats Black masculine-presenting women’s appearance, strength, and authority as an infraction.
As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th year, the expected patriotism of a sanitized history exposes the deep chasm Black Americans must navigate every Fourth of July.
Black LGBTQ people have shown up for both the Black and the queer communities, but do both communities show up for us?
For Black folks, our relationship with music runs far deeper than the nostalgia that captures the moments and memories we associate with each song.
How a viral clip ignited a Clark fan base already primed to spiral, and what it exposes about the officiating the WNBA has a responsibility to fix.
From Reconstruction to affirmative action, gains for Black Americans have a history of triggering efforts to repeal them.
When Black women exceed expectations, blessings become sources of discomfort, disrupting assumptions about how should possess back amounts of care, comfort, and joy.
The one area where the WNBA hasn’t quite kept pace with its own growth is its logo, which still features an anonymous silhouette.
Izzy Harrison’s ejection for fouling Angel Reese resurfaced questions about whether the WNBA is doing enough to protect its stars.
Caitiin Clark’s public unmasking leaves the WNBA in a slow-motion Milli Vanilli moment, exposing the unearned currency of its manufactured basketball star.