A lot of people are familiar with the old Negro Baseball Leagues, but less have heard about the African American basketball teams known as…

The National Hockey League has seen a resurgence of Black players in recent times and Montreal Canadiens’ defenseman P.K. Subban is emerging as one of…

Floyd “The Gentleman of Boxing” Patterson was born in Waco, North Carolina. At 17 he won his first Olympic Gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. At…

Nathaniel “Nate” Northington and the late Greg Page were the first Black athletes to integrate the NCAA’s Southeastern Conference and the first two Black football…

If you grew up in the historic “Eastside” of Oklahoma City, attended Frederick A. Douglass High School or if your a lifelong University of…