{"id":2794,"date":"2022-08-05T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:19:59","slug":"outrage-over-brittney-griner-sentencing-and-the-need-to-protect-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/outrage-over-brittney-griner-sentencing-and-the-need-to-protect-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage over Brittney Griner sentencing and the need to protect Black women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Kaya Freeman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>NABJ Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-mh-magazine-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Brittney-Griner-Sentencing.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Brittney-Griner-Sentencing-678x381.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2795\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Women\u2019s basketball star Brittney Griner has been imprisoned in Russia since February on drug charges. She pleaded guilty to the charges on July 7th and was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on August 4th. NABJ NAHJ News reporter Kaya Freeman caught the first reactions of ESPN reporters attending the convention in Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Brittney-Griner-Sentencing-8_4_22_-2.14-PM_1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Kaya Freeman NABJ Monitor Women\u2019s basketball star Brittney Griner has been imprisoned in Russia since February on drug charges. She pleaded guilty to the charges on July 7th and was sentenced to nine years <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/outrage-over-brittney-griner-sentencing-and-the-need-to-protect-black-women\/\" title=\"Outrage over Brittney Griner sentencing and the need to protect Black women\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,377,36],"tags":[368,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-2794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives","8":"category-podcast-2022","9":"category-podcasts-2022","10":"tag-nabjnahj22","11":"tag-podcast-2022"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}