12-year-old junior reporter Carnegie Johnson chats with Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, adding history from the Black Fives Era!
Episode 1: Jerry Reinsdorf
The new ‘Make History Now’ video by ’47 brought to you by SLAM with Chicago Bulls star Taj Gibson, visual artist Swopes, rapper Lil Bibby, and some of Chicago’s best young ballers.
The Black Fives Foundation is expanding and reinforcing its mission and goals with solid momentum from strategic partnerships and its first grant.
A great inside look at the New York City launch event for the Black Fives Collection by premium sports lifestyle brand ’47.
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.
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?
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.
Here are some September birthdays of Black Fives Era stars.
Julius Rosenwald was born August 12, 1862 in Springfield, Illinois. “Treat people fairly and honestly and generously and their response will be fair and honest and generous.” Rosenwald was the long time president and chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Company. Starting in 1911, his matching grant philanthropic programs helped build dozens of Young Men’s Christian… Read more »
In 1916 the price for a room at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City was $2.00 to $3.00 per night. How did that compare to the average wages of Negroes back then?