This week’s artifact is a special book by a beloved athlete, activist, and scholar. (Hint: There’s a stadium named after him.)
Artifact of the Week (5): A Special Book
An inside look at a fabulous event in London to launch the new ’47 x Black Fives Apparel Collection in Europe, in the trendy Shoreditch section of that amazing city.
The premium sports lifestyle brand known as ’47 teams up with the Black Fives Foundation for a new genre of apparel combining fashion with history.
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.
A 1947 visit to Cuba by the Harlem Globe Trotters pro barnstorming basketball team gives a glimpse into the past as well as into the future.
During the 1910s, a Lower East Side basketball coach brought Jewish Americans and African Americans together in the sport for the first time. Who was he? What did he do? Was he Jewish?
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) this week aired a special segment about the Black Fives exhibition at the New-York Historical Society on its evening news program, BBC World News America, hosted by Katty Kay.
We are incredibly delighted and honored to welcome long time New York Amsterdam News sportswriter Howie Evans to our Board of Directors, as of January 1, 2014.
Since the motto of the 2012 Olympic Games is “Inspire A Generation,” it’s appropriate to reserve some U.S.A. shout outs for early African American athletic club pioneers who, generations ago, helped make today’s successes possible.
In 1961, during a summer job in Vienna, Austria, my father took pivotal advice from Father Theodore Hesburgh, now President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.