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.
WATCH: The Team That Time Forgot (ABC News Piece on the New York Rens)
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.
We’re glad to report that former New York Rens and Washington Bears player John “Boy Wonder” Isaacs has been elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame!
MSG Network’s new PSA for Black History Month honors Black Fives Era pioneers and stars Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run DMC.
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?
Our 360-degree exterior photo essay of Harlem’s once-proud Renaissance Ballroom as it looks today, neglected and in ruins.
NPR News Morning Edition featured the recently opened Black Fives Exhibit at the New-York Historical Society in a segment this morning on member station WSHU 91.1 FM.
One is a media pass to a history-making event. The other was an “errant” pass that may have changed history.
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.
Edwin B. Henderson — a Black Fives Era pioneer who is known as the “Grandfather of Black Basketball” — has been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame! He is “unsung” no more.