PLANTATION, Fla. -- Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union are backing prominent civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump in an effort to help an expelled student and family friend get back into high school.
The couple released a statement Thursday supporting senior Cyrus Nance, who was a varsity basketball player in his first year at American Heritage School until he was expelled last month after a verbal altercation with the coach of the girls' varsity basketball team.
Crump says "every fact in this case points to discrimination" and that the expulsion was extreme. Nance would like to return to school.