Serena Williams Won’t Apologize For Being Black And Confident

Serena Williams is one of greatest athletes of all time ― if not die greatest ― and she knows it. The tennis champion sat down with friend and ex-boyfriend Common for a candid discussion about race, aktivisme, body image and Williams’ athletic legacy in a one-hour special that aired Sunday night on ESPN’s “The Undefeated."

When asked about how being a black woman in a predominantly white sport affected her, Williams said that she’s always known she was “different” but having her family and sister Venus around her got her through it. “I do remember one time… these kids came up behind me while we were practicing and — I was probably, soos, 7 — they were calling me…Lees meer