With nationwide protests after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in the wake of the recent shootings of Ahmad Arbery and Breonna Taylor, UConn athletics is using its platform to respond.
The UConn women’s basketball players released a powerful, unified statement:
As a team we are hurting. We feel responsible for speaking out and advocating for our black community and the injustices we face. Racism is not getting worse, it’s getting filmed, and more people are becoming aware of the 400 years of oppression that black people have been subjected to in America.