We’re featured in Jay-Z’s Life+Times Magazine! The publication’s Quinn Peterson wrote this long-read article on the Black Fives Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society!
Jay-Z’s Life+Times: ‘Black Fives’ Curator Speaks On New Historical Basketball Exhibit, The Legacy of The Black Fives
In 1939, Indiana high school basketball star George Crowe was involved in a race-related controversy — not his own doing — that received widespread newspaper coverage at the time but has been lost in history since, buried so deeply that even Crowe himself, today, can’t recall there was ever any fuss. But there was. And it revealed the ahead-of-its-time greatness of Indiana.
Breaking down the century-long connection between basketball and music.
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, a former star athlete at Syracuse, spectacular pro hoops player with the New York Rens and Washington Bears, and former Tuskegee Airman, died in a plane crash while on an Army training mission in 1941.
Pioneering basketball referee Chris Huiswoud, of African descent, shows us how things were done during the Black Fives Era.
Next week is the 36th annual Black Invitational Basketball Tournament in Halifax, Nova Scotia, starting May 14. By far, this is the most amazing basketball tournament you’ve ever never heard of. Yet. It’s run by the Provincial Black Basketball Association — the most amazing basketball organization you’ve never heard of … yet. How do I… Read more »
Today we celebrate Paul Robeson’s birthday. Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey.
February 19, 1937 was a big night in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. That’s because the local basketball team, the all-white Oshkosh All Stars, was on the eve of playing in a “World Series of Basketball” that would put the small city and the state of Wisconsin on the national professional basketball map. Their opponent: the all-black New… Read more »
In 1920, Chris Huiswoud became the first basketball referee of African descent to be formally sanctioned (allowed) by the AAU.
The grand opening of the Renaissance Theater on Seventh Avenue between 137th and 138th Streets was on January 15, 1921.