A FEW MONTHS ago, WNBA player Elizabeth Williams might not have posted the photo to her Instagram account. A few years ago, she might not have gone to the Black Lives Matter protest on June 3 at Centennial Park in downtown Atlanta.
"She's not usually the one to be the first out there, to put her name or her face out there," says Jaimee Stoner, Williams' friend. "Not because she doesn't care. That's just her personality."
Williams plays for the Atlanta Dream, a franchise in the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. The team is named for his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which he gave 57 years ago, on Aug.