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!
Major Accomplishments Since Organizing in 2013
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!
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!
A while ago we wrote a letter to President Barack Obama inviting him for a personal tour of the Black Fives exhibit at the New-York Historical Society.
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?
Complex Magazine, the very hip culture publication, has launched a new basketball lifestyle website called Triangle Offense. We feel honored to be featured among its very first articles!
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) this week aired a special segment about the Black Fives exhibition at the New-York Historical Society on its evening news program, BBC World News America, hosted by Katty Kay.
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.