ESPN Radio New York 98.7 FM host Bill Daughtry interviews historians Kevin McGruder and Claude Johnson about the recent demolition of Harlem’s historic Renaissance Ballroom.
ESPN Radio’s Followup Interviews on the Renaissance Ballroom Demolition
Efforts to save the Harlem’s historic Renaissance Ballroom, a cultural shrine, have failed. It was demolished by its new owners. Here is how this happened.
This new ABC News feature about the New York Rens all-black pro barnstorming basketball team and its old home court in Harlem is an important breakthrough.
Carmelo Anthony has a new magazine called “Melo” and one of its latest features is about our involvement in the efforts to preserve the historically important Renaissance Ballroom in Harlem.
Claude Johnson will present “The Crucial Role of Ephemera in Tracing Black Basketball History” at the Ephemera Society of America’s 35th Annual Conference, March 20 in Greenwich, CT.
For the NBA All Star Weekend, WPIX 11 produced ‘One-on-One: A Historic Look at the Journey of African American Basketball in NYC,’ which includes a look at Black Fives Era achievers who paved the way for today’s superstars.
Please meet the Younger Set Girls, an African American women’s basketball team that was formed in New York City in 1912.
On November 13, 1907, the first game between two fully independent, formally organized African American basketball teams was played in Brooklyn, New York.
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!
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?