{"id":213533,"date":"2025-10-10T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213533\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:32:12","slug":"natasha-cloud-credits-the-wnba-for-saving-democracy-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213533\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Cloud credits the WNBA for \u2018saving democracy in 2020\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WNBA has grown over the years<\/a>, and it’s not just because of the players and what they do on the court, but how they’ve stood up for things off the court. The year 2020 was a pivotal year in the world outside of the pandemic, where Black Lives Matter and other things, such as policing and gender equality, were big topics.<\/p>\n

In that moment, the WNBA stood up for their rights, and in the bubble, they made their stance strong with displays of activism. Natasha Cloud<\/a> was and still is a big part of leading with her voice, and she thinks the league made a big move<\/a> in 2020 with what they were able to accomplish.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wish that during this time we would have a little bit more voices from our league because there was a point where we saved democracy in 2020 and no one wants to give us that but you were one of the heads of leading that and doing it in a very loud and harsh way, but a very subtle and graceful way,\u201d Cloud said on the A Touch More podcast. \u201cWhich really just galvanized and impacted the sports world to do the same, and it put pressure on people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloud still believes the moment is bigger than ever, but she feels like it hasn’t been the same, as many are trying to provide for their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery part of activism is important,\u201d Cloud said. \u201cI just don\u2019t want to lose that as the W because we always have been on the forefront, and I would say like the last two or three years I\u2019ve seen us kind of fall back for the protection of obviously our families and how we provide for our families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloud has been one of the key leaders<\/a> in the WNBA when it comes to being a role model and activist, and as she continues to make a difference, it should open the doors for more athletes to want to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA has grown over the years, and it’s not just because of the players and what they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[7788,99,434,43883],"class_list":["post-213533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}