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This post was originally published following the release of the documentary Sue Bird: In the Clutch. It has been updated to incorporate the documentaries Taurasi and The Dynasty: UConn Huskies.

There has been a slew of women’s basketball documentaries released in recent years, as new fans are eager to learn the history they missed out in during the years they spent not watching the sport. If you’re at all familiar with my work, then you know that I love history and I’m a huge proponent of putting our modern sporting culture into the appropriate historical context.

My issue with many of these new women’s basketball documentaries—including the recent releases about Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, and the UConn women’s basketball program—is that the appropriate historical context is missing from them. Instead, these films attempt to rewrite the history of a predominantly Black sport by nearly excluding Black women from the narrative entirely.

Women’s basketball history is Black history, but you wouldn’t know that from watching any of these films.