January 4, 2022 – Greenwich, CT – The Black Fives Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity whose mission is to research, preserve, showcase, teach, and honor the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball, has teamed up with NBA great Russell Westbrook’s Zero World Media and Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’ Propagate Content, the… Read more »
NBA’s Russell Westbrook, Propagate, Black Fives Foundation Partner For Black Fives Era Documentary
At their media day, the Big East announced a conference-wide, 22-team educational initiative with the Black Fives Foundation.
The NBA incorrectly insists it was formed in 1949 when it was actually 1946.
Claude Johnson’s profile of African American basketball pioneer Clarence “Fats” Jenkins for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021 Enshrinement Weekend Program.
12-year-old reporter Carnegie Johnson encounters superstar point guard and Basketball Hall of Fame member Allen Iverson, who is reminiscent of Black Fives Era pioneer Zach Clayton!
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.
This historic 1941 basketball ticket that celebrates FDR’s birthday and raises funds to prevent Infantile Paralysis represents a major milestone in the sport.
A short film by the New York Historical Society introducing the first-ever comprehensive museum exhibition on the Black Fives Era of basketball (1904–1950).
Let’s hear it for African American basketball pioneer Harry “Bucky” Lew, born on this date in 1884. Happy Birthday!
It was an honor to be recognized at Rucker Park for my work with the Black Fives, along with Nate Archibald, Emmette Bryant, Dean Meminger, and Earl Monroe.