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Remember the date – 26th August 2020 – the day athletes across US professional sports boycotted games. An unprecedented and historic protest for racial justice and the end to police brutality in America.

Players were responding to the death of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police in Wisconsin.

It was led by several Women's NBA teams and reached across the entire basketball leagues and across other sports...as America's courts, pitches and fields fell silent.

Lee James speaks to star of the WNBA and LA Sparks player Tierra Ruffin-Pratt and former Washington Wizards and Oklahoma City Thunder NBA player and now motivational speaker and author Etan Thomas.

Photo: Sug Sutton looks on while standing with teammates Jacki Gemelos, Kiara Leslie, Leilani Mitchell, Myisha Hines-Allen, Tianna Hawkins and Emma Meesseman of the Washington Mystics during the WNBA postponement announcement at Feld Entertainment Center on August 26, 2020 in Palmetto, Florida. The Washington Mystics are wearing white T-shirts that spell out Jacob Blake on the front and seven bullet holes in the back to protest the shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Credit: Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)