The Basketball Hall of Fame will form a special review committee to look at overlooked African American candidates, but there’s a catch.
Basketball Hall of Fame To Have Special Black History Review Committee (But …)
This is what makes it so difficult for some Black Fives Era players to be fairly considered for comparison and recognition by the committee members responsible for selecting inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
The very first indoor tennis match involving African Americans took place at a tennis-basketball doubleheader in Harlem in 1914.
Ora Mae Washington, a pioneering African American athlete, was born on January 23, 1898; she was perhaps the greatest female athlete of all time, black or white.
Our list of the most deserving Black Fives Era players and contributors who are not yet enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
They were pretty. They were magnificent. They were the Chicago Roamers, a.k.a. the Roamer Girls, a great African American womens basketball team you probably never heard of until now.