The Sky Blue FC star is optimistic about what the black players of NWSL can accomplish as the US deals with race and police violence
Midge Purce believes there are no limits to what athletes can achieve in the fight against racial inequality - but the silence of some “doesn’t go unnoticed.”
The Sky Blue FC and U.S. national team forward-cum-defender has been a vocal proponent for racial justice, as the United States has undergone another reckoning over race and police violence this summer.
As the first American sports league to return to the field after the country’s coronavirus shutdown, the NWSL was on the front lines of the collision between sports and social justice.