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Sports

Crystal Dunn is playing with freedom — and fury

Motherhood and finding her voice have helped the U.S. women’s national team veteran liberate herself from the pressure to perform

Sports

Black women are balling out, making their impact on the U.S. national soccer team

The USWNT looks set to have historic levels of representation in next year’s World Cup, a sign of optimism for Black soccer legends like Briana Scurry

Sports

Briana Scurry’s World Cup-winning save opened a path for Olympian Adrianna Franch

Franch is the first African American keeper for the USWNT since Scurry

Sports

Crystal Dunn, one of the world’s best soccer players, feels ‘like someone has dimmed my light’

Even as she appears in her second Olympics, Dunn faces problems common to Black women

Sports

Former USWNT star Shannon Boxx on living with lupus amid COVID-19 crisis

‘It makes me sad that there are a lot of people that are suffering or even worse because they now can’t get the medication that they need’

Sports

World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe helps continue Nipsey Hussle’s marathon

Charismatic, defiant and independent, the U.S. women’s team is hip-hop

Culture

Soccer star Crystal Dunn on pay disparity, the pressure to succeed — and her fave Drake

The USWNT standout is engaged to be married and set for big match vs. Portugal

Sports

Briana Scurry is the first African-American woman elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame

The Olympic and Women’s World Cup champion also will be the first female goaltender enshrined

The Uplift

Two for Tuesday: World Cup champ Briana Scurry is a soccer legend and Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Two iconic women who changed the game — one in sports, the other in music