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.
Griner In 'Good Spirits' In U.S. After Russian Prisoner Swap
U.S. women's basketball star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner sits on the plane en route to Abu Dhabi to be exchanged for Russian citizen Viktor Bout on December 9.