At their media day, the Big East announced a conference-wide, 22-team educational initiative with the Black Fives Foundation.
Big East Announces Black Fives Educational Initiative
We are thankful for a generous gift that allowed us to acquire a collection of rare early African American artifacts for our Black Fives Foundation Archives.
12-year-old junior reporter and student athlete Carnegie Johnson chats with hoops superstar Sheryl Swoopes, adding history from the Black Fives Era!
Please meet the Younger Set Girls, an African American women’s basketball team that was formed in New York City in 1912.
Claude Johnson appeared on NBC News 4 New York’s “Positively Black” segment with host Tracie Strahan this past Sunday to discuss the Black Fives exhibition currently at the museum, which runs through July 20, 2014.
On February 10, Barclays Center will unveil a compilation of six mural-sized photographic images honoring the legacy of Brooklyn’s African-American basketball history throughout the arena’s main concourse.
Did you know that Lena Horne was the daughter of Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who played basketball for the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn?
Ellen Jenkins Harris, entrepreneur and daughter of New York Rens star Clarence ‘Fats’ Jenkins, joins Black Fives, Inc. as its newest Advisory Board member.
I recently visited the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. to check out a new exhibit there called The Scurlock Studio And Black Washington: Picturing The Promise.
Just behold these vintage African American women’s basketball photographs, and the stories they tell.