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In high school, Candace Parker couldn’t wait for Christmas to be over because that meant it was time to play in the Dundee-Crown holiday tournament. If you got to the gym early enough, you could watch it transition from a quiet high school on a tree-lined suburban street in Carpentersville to a sporting venue straight from a movie. Think of ‘‘Hoosiers.’’ Anyone who has been around the Chicago-area prep basketball scene knows the setting. It’s a winter night so cold it steals your breath. Fluffy snowflakes are sticking to your eyelashes. Your car is parked far away from the gym doors. ....
Draymond Green have pooled their resources to launch the More Than A Vote campaign. Elsewhere, Chris Paul created a program that provided transportation to the polls for voters at historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina. Now, Dwayne Wade is using his platform to discuss the importance of mobilizing Black voters as we near local elections in 2021 and congressional elections in 2022. “What I wanna say to all the Black people out there, all the marginalized peoples, we understand why the politicians are trying to silence the black voters,” he told Wall Street Journal Deputy Chief News Editor Darren Everson during a recent interview. ....
PEOPLE. “It’s because of our power.” (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) He continued, “Understand if we mobilize and we utilize what we have, and that’s our power, that it scares everybody. No one’s scared because of our muscles and because of our skin tone, they’re scared of us because of our power. And so, we want our kids to understand where they come from, who they are and don’t let the world step on them because of it.” Wade added, “That’s the message for everybody out there, the community: let’s mobilize, let’s utilize what we have and that’s our power together to create change, to make change, to have the life that we say we want.” ....
Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images It turns out that Portland Trail Blazers’ CJ McCollum isn’t the only one with a wine to their name: Seth Curry, now of the Philadelphia 76ers, is releasing a pinot noir with Maysara Winery, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Social Change Fund, which was established by Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony last summer, according to Nick DePaula of the Undefeated. While in Portland, Curry and his wife Callie got to know the Momtazi family of Maysara Winery and Momtazi Vineyards. Curry said the family-owned winery appealed to him in this partnership. ....