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WOAY-TV Members of the Bluefield College mens basketball team kneel during the national anthem before a Jan. 30 game. When Ayanna Strother, a junior on the Bluefield College women’s basketball team, heard that the men’s team had been suspended for kneeling during the national anthem before games, she and her teammates werent surprised. The decision to kneel was not a spur-of-the-moment gesture. Like college and professional athletes of color across the country who had done the same thing, t...