Complex Magazine, the very hip culture publication, has launched a new basketball lifestyle website called Triangle Offense. We feel honored to be featured among its very first articles!
‘Triangle Offense,’ Complex Magazine’s New Basketball Lifestyle Site, Features Black Fives
A new exhibition opening March 14 at the New-York Historical Society celebrates a forgotten era in sports history. ‘The Black Fives’ explores the history of pioneering African American basketball teams from the early 1900s through 1950.
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.
Newsday published this cool article by Bob Herzog. The piece is insightful, thoughtful, and thorough.
Harold “Hal” Jackson, a Washington, D.C. native who was a sports broadcasting pioneer and one-time owner of the Washington Bears all-black pro basketball team, died yesterday at age 96.
Price was not only the oldest living former Harlem Globetrotter but was also one of 10 black players who in 1941 broke the racial color barrier in pro basketball by signing with the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets of the National Basketball League.
NBC4 in Washington, D.C. is airing this television segment celebrating the contributions of Black Fives Era basketball pioneer and contributor Edwin Bancroft Henderson.
For fans like me, the amazing basketball events of last week — beautifully staged by Nike and the Basketball Hall of Fame, from Harlem to Springfield and back — might as well have been called the “World Basketball Orgy.”
By Vince Thomas for TheRoot.com: Before the NBA was desegregated, there were the Black Fives.
January is a difficult month for friends and fans of the New York “Rens” of Harlem, the all-black pro basketball team that played in 1920s, 30s, and 40s.