Ralph Bunche was born in Detroit on August 7, 1904. He would become a star basketball player, summa cum laude graduate, and class valedictorian at U.C.L.A. in the 1920s, a Nobel Prize winner in 1950, and the United Nations under-secretary general in 1968. He lectured at Howard University while working towards his doctoral degree at… Read more »
Happy Birthday To Ralph Bunche, Basketball Star, Intellect, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, And U.S. State Department Pioneer
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Unseen Stitches: The Black Fives x Gee’s Bend Masterpiece QuiltNovember 1, 2026The Black Fives x Gee’s Bend Masterpiece Quilt, created by the Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective from Black Fives throwback basketball jersey remnants, brings together two extraordinary African American cultural traditions. Its more than 68,000 stitches reveal a powerful metaphor for the often unseen contributions that hold families, communities, and American history together. […]
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One of the over 150 historical items from the Black Fives Era of basketball that was in the Black Fives exhibition at the New York Historical Society Museum from March–July 2014. (Black Fives Archives)
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