During a panel discussion at the Essence Black Women In Sports Brunch in New Orleans, the topic quickly turned from Title IX to an emotional touch base about WNBA star, Brittney Griner's, detainment in Russia. Griner has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on charges of smuggling drugs into the country. Brittney Griner, 31, pled guilty to bringing less than 1 gram of cannabis oil into Russia, which she claims she did "inadvertently."