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History shouldn't forget WNBA players helped changed course of U.S. Senate, and neither should their league

Thank you, WNBA players.

Thank you for your gifts and your talents.

Most especially, thank you for never shying away from doing the right thing, fighting for those that look and love like you — and by extension, yourselves — and never shutting up and dribbling.

A great deal of credit for what looks to be a Democrat sweep in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoff election rightfully belongs to Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight and Black Voters Matter, co-founded by LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright, for the incredible work they’ve done in recent years helping Black Georgians get registered to vote and to the polls in a state that has historically done everything it can to prevent those things.