Please meet the Younger Set Girls, an African American women’s basketball team that was formed in New York City in 1912.
This Women’s Team Combines Valentines, NBA All Star, and Black History Month Charm Into One Irresistible Basketball Treat
The Black Fives Foundation teams up with the Brooklyn Nets to conduct a series of school educational presentations on local African American basketball history.
Grinding it out, one possession at a time, and in only our second year, we’ve achieved some amazing successes considering our size and the newness of our genre!
It’s over! ‘De-install’ begins today for the Black Fives exhibit at the New-York Historical Society! Did you miss it? If so, check out the “Exhibition” page at BlackFives.org!
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?
NBA players pair up with Black Fives Era pioneers in television vignettes by Fox Sports Net in collaboration with the Black Fives Foundation.
Claude Johnson appeared on NBC News 4 New York’s “Positively Black” segment with host Tracie Strahan this past Sunday to discuss the Black Fives exhibition currently at the museum, which runs through July 20, 2014.
The Brian Lehrer Television Show invites Claude Johnson, historian, author, and founder of the Black Fives Foundation, to give viewers a virtual tour with photographs from the Black Fives exhibition at the New-York Historical Society.
NPR News Morning Edition featured the recently opened Black Fives Exhibit at the New-York Historical Society in a segment this morning on member station WSHU 91.1 FM.
The opening reception for the Black Fives Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society this week was a big success and a memorable event.
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We inspire excellence in youth and communities by preserving, teaching, and honoring the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball.
For years, we have been building something truly remarkable.![]()
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Something deeper than what’s visible on the surface.![]()
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This piece, created by the Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective from remnants of our Black Fives throwback jerseys, carries that idea.![]()
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On the front, you see something beautiful.![]()
On the back, you see the work.![]()
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Tens of thousands of stitches.![]()
Each one holding the whole together.![]()
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Like the earlier African American basketball pioneers whose names were forgotten, but whose work helped shape the game.![]()
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Like the countless people, often unseen, who did and are doing the work that holds our country together.![]()
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The surface only exists because of what’s behind it.![]()
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And it’s only as strong as the weakest stitch.![]()
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Do we really want to remove certain stitches?![]()
Are we OK with pieces falling apart?![]()
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Do we value the work we don’t see?![]()
Do we recognize it?![]()
Do we protect it?![]()
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That’s the real story.![]()
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For years, we have been building something truly remarkable.![]()
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A deep archive of early African American basketball.![]()
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The stories, the images, the history that shaped the game.![]()
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But this is more than an archive.![]()
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It’s a cultural IP and sports heritage platform.![]()
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Infrastructure of history, identity, and assets ready to build with.![]()
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For partners, institutions, and brands who want real cultural authenticity, not just performative optics.![]()
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