Through a generous donor gift we recently acquired a major historical African American basketball artifact for the Black Fives Foundation Archives! Take a look!
Donor Gift Allows Acquisition of Major Historical African American Basketball Artifact
This historic 1941 basketball ticket that celebrates FDR’s birthday and raises funds to prevent Infantile Paralysis represents a major milestone in the sport.
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.
The Black Fives Foundation and Black Fives Era history will be featured on H2’s newest episode of “10 Things You Don’t Know About” with Henry Rollins, premiering tonight, Saturday, August 30, at 10ET/11PT!
Here is what some of basketball’s founding fathers would say about the current N.B.A. lockout.
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.
Today we celebrate Paul Robeson’s birthday. Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey.
The grand opening of the Renaissance Theater on Seventh Avenue between 137th and 138th Streets was on January 15, 1921.