This Monday morning, New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher has been fired after his squad lost 9 out of their last 10 games…

One of the first women’s track teams started at the all-black Tuskegee Institute in 1929. Just three years later, Louise Stokes and Tidye Pickett…

Let’s talk about track and field. An African-American man by the name of Jesse Owens suddenly became a hero in America after his performance…

In 1996, Sheryl Swoopes, former Texas Tech basketball star became the very first player to sign with the Women’s National Basketball Association or the…

A “Gentlemen’s Agreement” in professional baseball excluded African-Americans from playing major league baseball with whites. However, that wasn’t enough to stop us, as early as…

Debi Thomas was the first African-American woman to win a medal in Olympic figure skating in 1988, fairly recently huh? Well in the year…

In 1915, “Fritz” Pollard was allowed to play football at Brown University, along with Paul Robeson, who came the same year. These were the…