NBA Athletes Are Too Rich to Be Revolutionaries

There’s nothing radical about allowing the league to co-opt a labor strike

Tirhakah Love
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5 min readAug 28, 2020

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For a minute there, the revolution was truly untelevised. After the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court for their…

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Tirhakah Love
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African from Texas• Staff Writer at LEVEL • Black politics, Celebrity interviews, TV & Film Criticism • Previously: MTV News, San Francisco Chronicle