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To celebrate the start of Black History Month 2016, we launched a new feature called the Artifact of the Week.
This new repository allows more room to expand the size of our archive and provides many fundamentally important capabilities that were previously missing.
A collection of rare photographs and other historical materials relating to Harlem Globe Trotters have been donated to the Black Fives Foundation Historical Archive.
Fare thee well, 2015. Looking back we raise toasts to the greatest wins as well as to the toughest losses of the year.
A couple of months ago I had a chance to chat briefly with Harlem Globetrotters legend and Basketball Hall of Fame member Meadowlark Lemon.
We rank the Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2016 nominees for the special direct-elect Early African American Pioneers Committee in order most deserving, with a poll.
We are delighted to welcome three new members to our Board of Directors.
The brothers Ulysses S. “Lyss” Young and William “Pimp” Young, unsung African American basketball pioneers who took their games far beyond the courts.
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.