LeBron James Thanks Chiney Ogwumike For Work Empowering Black Women

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00:00 I'm Jill Painter Lopez for Sports Illustrated and LeBron James is praising

00:05 Chanae Agumake for her work on the More Than a Vote, that's that voting rights

00:10 coalition that LeBron James started and he tweeted an interview she was doing

00:14 with MSNBC with the emojis foot and gas so keep the foot on the gas pedal he was

00:20 saying. Now in that interview she was talking about the platform that she has

00:25 to help in black voter suppression and encouraging black females to use their

00:30 voting power as well. Now she has such big stages she was a former number one

00:36 overall pick in the WNBA draft she plays for the Los Angeles Sparks and she's

00:41 also an NBA analyst for ESPN. Now she said when she was growing up playing

00:47 basketball in Texas that she has heard racial slurs that were directed her way

00:52 and her parents always used to tell her your existence is your resistance. Now

00:56 she's trying to use the power of positivity to help affect change.

01:01 Another thing LeBron said in that tweet about her he said he is so happy for all

01:07 of his powerful black Queens and all of the work that they are doing in

01:11 particular on this voting rights coalition.