Brittney Griner returned to the United States on December 9 and was reunited with her wife nearly 10 months after her detention in Russia made the basketball star the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm. Griner's status as an openly gay Black woman, her prominence in women's basketball, and her imprisonment in a country where authorities have been hostile to the LGBT community heightened concerns for her and brought tremendous attention to the case. To read the original story from AP, click here.
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