There are many Black athletes who were the first in their fields. Jackie became the first African American in the modern era to play in a Major League Baseball game. However, there were many Black ...

Kinney Holbrook joined the Hawkeye football team in 1895, becoming the first African-American athlete in the history of the University of Iowa and the first documented black college athlete in the ...

Owens sided with the U.S. Olympic Committee against militant young African-American athletes at the 1968 Games. In 1970, he wrote "Blackthink," which criticized racial militancy. He said blacks ...

This scenario is nothing new for African-American athletes. When sports and race collide in the headlines, when Jones is the victim of on-field abuse, or Colin Kaepernick kneels during the U.S ...

These pioneering and high-achieving athletes demonstrate that women and girls have ... Babe Didrikson postcard from the 1932 Summer Olympic Games National Museum of African American History and ...

Later, a second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the ...

The achievements and contributions of Black athletes from D.W. Daniel High School over the past 50 years are celebrated in the new exhibit "Sincerely Daniel" at Clemson's African American Museum.

Athletes have long used sports as a forum ... believes the NBA and WNBA —where African American players are in the majority — should stand with the communities their players come from, as ...

Shaun Golden shares how the Alzheimer's Association helped his family as his father, former Riverside High School Coach Louie Golden, battled Lewy Body Dementia before his passing in 2021.

(KGUN) — As Black History Month comes to a close, KGUN 9 is shining a light on the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame and its contributions to preserving the legacy of African American athletes.