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.
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.
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.