WATCH: The dedication of John “Boy Wonder” Isaacs Way, a portion of Hoe Avenue in the Bronx renamed after the basketball pioneer and community legend.
WATCH: Bronx Street Renamed to Honor Basketball and Community Legend John ‘Boy Wonder’ Isaacs
This video describes the key ideas behind our unique and exciting apparel licensing partnership with ’47.
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!
A great Black Fives Era history piece by Dante A. Ciampaglia in the 2014 NBA Preview Issue of Sports Illustrated for Kids.
Today is the birth date of former pro basketball great John “Boy Wonder” Isaacs, born in 1915, who would have been 99 years old.
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?
We are incredibly delighted and honored to welcome long time New York Amsterdam News sportswriter Howie Evans to our Board of Directors, as of January 1, 2014.
BFF founder and executive director Claude Johnson gave a history presentation to kids at the Riverside Hawks Summer Camp in Harlem, joined by Nike basketball designers and veteran NBA guard Royal Ivey.
Two consecutive weeks of full-page coverage in the New York Amsterdam News is an honor for which we are grateful.
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We inspire excellence by preserving, teaching, and honoring the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball.
Congratulations to our Education and Leadership Ambassador @kamoreaarnold for her first @ncaa Tourney appearance with @uconnwbb who she idolized as a youngster with posters on her wall. Manifestation, one moment at a time! Truly breathtaking! Best wishes KK! Make History Now! 💪🏽😤🔥
Sneak Peek! If you’re in Indianapolis for the NBA All-Star Weekend, please stop by the @ebbetsvintage pop-up shop at 50 South Meridian for the launch of our new Black Fives x Ebbets Field Flannels collection featuring the New York Rens. Open 10 AM to 10 PM. #RENS100 #makehistorynow #bhm
Limited Edition “Make History Now” Black Fives x Big East BHM Cotton Long Sleeve ![]()
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Though you aren’t a BIG EAST basketball player, you can still have this cotton long-sleeve tee version of their performance warm-up shirt.![]()
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The shirt graphic is the same. It’s the Black Fives x BIG EAST commemorative partnership logo with the Make History Now slogan on a cotton long-sleeve tee shirt to celebrate BHM2024 and honor early African-American basketball teams paired up with BIG EAST member schools.![]()
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