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We mourn the loss of Marques Haynes, star player with the Harlem Globe Trotters and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Images from some of our recent school visits, where we are presenting the local history of the Black Fives Era of basketball in partnership with the Brooklyn Nets as a part of their Nets Assist educational programming.
ESPN Radio New York 98.7 FM host Bill Daughtry interviews historians Kevin McGruder and Claude Johnson about the recent demolition of Harlem’s historic Renaissance Ballroom.
Efforts to save the Harlem’s historic Renaissance Ballroom, a cultural shrine, have failed. It was demolished by its new owners. Here is how this happened.
This new ABC News feature about the New York Rens all-black pro barnstorming basketball team and its old home court in Harlem is an important breakthrough.
Carmelo Anthony has a new magazine called “Melo” and one of its latest features is about our involvement in the efforts to preserve the historically important Renaissance Ballroom in Harlem.
We’re glad to report that former New York Rens and Washington Bears player John “Boy Wonder” Isaacs has been elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame!
We are mourning the loss of basketball pioneer and Hall of Fame member Earl Lloyd, the first African American to play in the NBA, who died today at age 86.
Claude Johnson will present “The Crucial Role of Ephemera in Tracing Black Basketball History” at the Ephemera Society of America’s 35th Annual Conference, March 20 in Greenwich, CT.