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Australian Open 2021: Naomi Osaka on her powerful US Open Black Lives Matter protest – The Age
Naomi Osaka has revealed why she wore masks with the names of police shooting victims during last year’s US Open – and talks about her hopes for the future under…
By the time the US Open rolled around a week later, the Japanese-born daughter of a Haitian father and Japanese mother went from tennis prodigy to poster girl of the Black Lives Matter movement, not just in the United States but around the globe.
Unknown to most at the time, Osaka walked into Flushing Meadows on day one of the US Open with seven different face masks in her bag, each embroidered with the name of an African-American recently killed by a police officer.
Osaka wears a mask featuring…
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