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Bubba Wallace To Drive For Michael Jordan’s New NASCAR Team | HuffPost

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020African American Athletes

Wallace, the only full-time Black driver in the Cup Series, called it a “once in a lifetime opportunity.” — REUTERS, HuffPost Basketball great Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin have partnered to form a new single-car NASCAR Cup Series team that will feature Bubba Wallace as its driver, the trio said on […]

Tennis Star Coco Gauff Delivers Passionate Speech at Black Lives Matter Protest in Florida | Hypebae

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020African American Athletes

“If you listen to black music, if you like black culture…this is your fight too.” 16-year-old tennis star Coco Gauff, the youngest player to rank in the Women’s Tennis Association top 100 list, took to the podium at a Black Lives Matter protest in Delray Beach, Florida with a powerful speech denouncing inaction and silence. “I’m here to […]

Black NCAA players with Black head coaches more likely to graduate | TheGrio

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020African American Athletes, African American Sports

Study shows that Black coaches in the NCAA graduate 84.5 percent of their student-athletes; a rate higher than their white counterparts The gap in graduation rates of Black and white NCAA Division I basketball players grew over the past year, according to a study of the male and female teams projected to make the NCAA […]

What happened to the African American catcher?| The Undefeated

April 15, 2020April 15, 2020African American Athletes

Examining the lack of black catchers in MLB and the prospects with a shot On March 12, A.J. Lewis’ collegiate baseball career abruptly ended, like a candle snuffed out by a sudden, chilling wind. Caught in the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the 21-year-old catcher could have headed home to Chicago. He was enjoying an impressive season […]

The chilling details of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination and how he was dissolved in acid | Face2Face Africa

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020African American Athletes, African History

Since January 17, 1961, no one has been held accountable for the brutal murder of Congo’s independence leader and first prime minister Patrice Lumumba who was shot dead with two of his ministers, Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] However, all fingers point to multinational perpetrators who sanctioned the elimination of one of Africa’s […]

Meet Melissa Harville-Lebron: The First Black Woman to Own a NASCAR Team | Black Enterprise (2018)

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020African American Athletes

Melissa Harville-Lebron never imagined that her entrepreneurial pursuits and ambitions would lead her to make history as the first African American woman to solely own a race team licensed by NASCAR. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Harville-Lebron, a 47-year-old single mother raising her three biological children as well as her siblings’ four kids, started her career in the […]

Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened | The New York Times

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Athletes, African American Icon

Fifty years ago this week, “Buck White” opened, and very quickly closed. What does this footnote to theater history still have to tell us? [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] So, as the sportscaster Howard Cosell used to ask great boxers: What went wrong out there, champ? When the stage musical “Buck White” opened at the George Abbott Theater […]

Halima Aden Is First Black Woman In Hijab To Grace Cover Of Essence Magazine | HuffPost

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019African American Activist, African American Athletes

The model, who is Muslim, has broken multiple barriers in the fashion industry. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Model Halima Aden shattered yet another barrier in the fashion industry this week, becoming the first Black woman in a hijab to grace the cover of Essence magazine. Halima, who is Muslim, is featured on the front of Essence’s January […]

Tracy McGrady Is Launching An Advisory Program To Keep Young Athletes From Going Broke | Forbes

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019African American Athletes, African American Economics

When athletes turn pro, they’re often exposed to the kind of money they never could have imagined—and a newfound need to manage that money responsibly. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It can be hard to resist the temptation to spend lavishly and instead start thinking of the future, but that sort of lack of foresight has landed a […]

Leon Spinks: Boxing Legend, 66,Hospitalized & ‘Fighting For His Life’ | Hollywood Life

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019African American Athletes

Boxer Leon Spinks, who rose to fame after beating Muhammad Ali over forty years ago, is hospitalized and reportedly fighting for his life. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] TMZ reported on December 11 that Leon’s conditions, which are being treated on at a Las Vegas hospital, are unclear but his family and friends are very concerned. His wife […]