12-year-old junior reporter and student athlete Carnegie Johnson chats with hoops superstar Sheryl Swoopes, adding history from the Black Fives Era!
Episode 2: Sheryl Swoopes
The first episode of our new Make History Now podcast is dedicated to basketball pioneer Earl Lloyd, the first African American to play in the NBA.
Our new logo for the Black Fives Foundation Archives, to give them their own identity and their own focus within the overall mission of the organization.
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.
The brothers Ulysses S. “Lyss” Young and William “Pimp” Young, unsung African American basketball pioneers who took their games far beyond the courts.
Part 2 of my two-part article on John ‘Boy Wonder’ Isaacs, originally published in the 2015 Enshrinement Weekend Yearbook of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
My two-part article on John ‘Boy Wonder’ Isaacs, originally published in the 2015 Enshrinement Weekend Yearbook of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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.