An inside look at a fabulous event in London to launch the new ’47 x Black Fives Apparel Collection in Europe, in the trendy Shoreditch section of that amazing city.
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On November 13, 1907, the first game between two fully independent, formally organized African American basketball teams was played in Brooklyn, New York.
During the 1910s, a Lower East Side basketball coach brought African Americans and Jewish Americans together in the sport for the first time. Who was he? What did he do? Was he Jewish?
I was in Manhattan last week for Converse’s celebration of the 35th anniversary of Rick Telander’s playground basketball classic, Heaven is a Playground.
Breaking down the century-long connection between basketball and music.
The St. Christopher Club, which had arguably the most successful non-professional basketball team of the Black Fives Era, got its start in 1896 as a bible study group to help keep young African American males off the seedy streets of what is now midtown Manhattan.