This feature length review of the Black Fives Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society appears in the Wall Street Journal, on the front page of its “Greater New York” section!
Wall Street Journal: Exhibit Uncovers the ‘Negro Leagues’ of Basketball
At the March 2014 unveiling of the Earl Lloyd statue at West Virginia State University in Charleston, West Virginia.
Michael Bellamy hosts BK Live on Brooklyn Independent Media with guest Claude Johnson of the Black Fives Foundation
Michael C. King, the son of William “Dolly” King, describes some family artifacts and the stories surrounding them.
One is a media pass to a history-making event. The other was an “errant” pass that may have changed history.
NBA pioneer and Hall of Fame member Earl Lloyd (left) with Claude Johnson, Founder & Executive Director of the Black Fives Foundation, at the Smithsonian Institution in 2011.
Duquesne honors Chuck Cooper, among first blacks in NBA, by staging inaugural Chuck Cooper Classic, a hoops doubleheader featuring HBCU teams. How cool is that?
The NBA celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1996. The problem is that it didn’t exist until 1950 when the BAA merged with the NBL. This new book clears that up.
April birthdays related to the Black Fives Era of basketball include Don Barksdale, Bill Yancey, John McLendon, Paul Robeson, and Charles Scottron.
The fact that some of the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2009 finalists are black does not stir up any controversy whatsoever. But that wasn’t always the case.











