Fare thee well, 2015. Looking back we raise toasts to the greatest wins as well as to the toughest losses of the year.
Greatest Wins, Toughest Losses of 2015
Akron, Ohio’s all-black American Legion Post No. 272 basketball team was a wartime squad that won the Akron city championship for the 1944-45 season.
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.
We’re featured in Jay-Z’s Life+Times Magazine! The publication’s Quinn Peterson wrote this long-read article on the Black Fives Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society!
The one-and-only cultural icon, DJ, TV personality and all-around great dude Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love talks with Black Fives Foundation executive director Claude Johnson on East Village Radio.
Barclays Center TV spoke with Claude Johnson about the vintage black basketball murals that are up around the Barclays Center concourse and their significance.
Michael C. King, the son of William “Dolly” King, describes some family artifacts and the stories surrounding them.
Let’s hear it for African American basketball pioneer Harry “Bucky” Lew, born on this date in 1884. Happy Birthday!
Black Fives Foundation founder and executive director Claude Johnson will be a panelist at this weekend’s annual Jackie Robinson Foundation Legacy Conference in New York City.
Claude Johnson will moderate a Washington Wizards discussion at the Verizon Center on Friday, with distinguished panelists David Aldridge, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, and Bob Dandridge.