By Aswad Walker
Defender
Reprinted – by Texas Metro News
WHOOPI LAUNCHES ALL-WOMEN SPORTS NETWORK
Actress Whoopi Goldberg, who is on a mission to transform the women’s sports world recently, said, “I’m launching the first global women’s sports channel called AWSN (All Women’s Sports Network). It’ll be the home for live women’s sports from around the world. Everything from soccer, basketball, tennis, cricket, curling, you name it. If a woman is playing it, we’re showing it.”
According to its website, AWSN will be available in 65 countries and dedicated exclusively to women’s sports featuring some of the world’s largest sports leagues, such as the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), The International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), and the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL).
Inspired by her childhood passion for sports, Goldberg partnered with CommonSpirit and Jungo TV to co-found the network, a venture that has been 16 years in the making. Not only is this a power move for women everywhere, Goldberg’s new venture stands as an example of what Black people must do more of as we move into our U.S. reality of shrinking resources and institutional support via the upcoming Trump’s administration.
BLACK PROJECT 2025?
With fears growing of the coming anti-Black, anti-women, anti-immigrant onslaught of Project 2025, Some Blackfolk aren’t sitting around waiting for destruction. Instead, they’re coming together and calling for Blackfolk to create our plan for the future, dubbed Black Project 2025. TikTok content creator @mediabuyingbestie got the online party started in a post suggesting Blacks collaborate on an agenda, recruit hyper-talented Black professionals to add their talents to the mix, and get busy opening Black-owned banks, grocery stores, and other businesses.
She also urged buying Black, saying “Everything we use and consume on a daily basis, it is no longer purchased from these large corporations. It is purchased from one another.” She added, “Maybe there is a silver lining in Kamala not being able to get into office because as a community we just become that much more tight-knit.” And it seems, folk are getting in formation. Just four days after the creator posted her original video, there is currently a waitlist to join the group as they look for a platform that can handle the overwhelming community response. The group is also looking to fill positions with Black cyber security specialists, app developers and network and systems engineers as they build out their platform.
SISTERS: NO TIME FOR BLUE BRACELETS OR WHITE TEARS
TikTok has a new craze; white women making blue friendship bracelets as a symbolic show of support for Vice President Kamala Harris after her election defeat to felon Donald Trump. These white-tears-turned-blue-bracelets are also supposed to signal to the general public, and Black women in particular, that being in company with the wearers of these solidarity arm charms is “a safe space” amid a racially hostile America. But, apparently, sisters online are paraphrasing the great Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise who said something approaching, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But if you think you’re gonna fool me a third time, you must be white-girl-wasted.”
And why wouldn’t sisters be weary? Despite all the promises of solidarity, 53% of white women voted like they always do—for whiteness above anything and everything else. One Black woman, @SincerelyMaxxDotcom, responded to this new craze saying white women “would rather make bracelets instead of holding each other accountable for being racist.” One group of sisters posted on TikTok a to-the-point response. Still, some sisters view the bracelets as a positive, with one TikToker @vmjen saying, “In this red state, you need to know who’s safe and who’s not. Not only people of color need to know that. White women need to know that.”
