He will become the first individual ever enshrined in both the Cooperstown (baseball) and Springfield (basketball) Halls of Fame!
Cumberland Posey, Jr. Elected to Basketball Hall of Fame!
This video describes the key ideas behind our unique and exciting apparel licensing partnership with ’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.
Did you know that Lena Horne was the daughter of Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who played basketball for the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn?
In 1950, Cooper, a Pittsburgh resident and Duquesne University graduate became the first African-American selected in the NBA Draft.
Duquesne honors Chuck Cooper, among first blacks in NBA, by staging inaugural Chuck Cooper Classic, a hoops doubleheader featuring HBCU teams. How cool is that?
The success of the Monticello Athletic Association paved the way for other African American teams in Pittsburgh and elsewhere, by showing that any team from any city could produce a champion with enough desire and determination.
We had some very significant basketball history milestones this week. The Loendi Big Five On November 5, 1900, the Loendi Social and Literary Club was incorporated in Pittsburgh, Pa. The club’s basketball team, the Loendi Big Five, dominated black basketball during the 1910s and early 1920s. The organization itself was the most prestigious African American… Read more »
Here are some September birthdays of Black Fives Era stars.
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?