Being the first African American to play basketball at Cincinnati on an athletic scholarship, you'd think that would be a moment of pride. Still, it wasn't for the future Hall of Famer.

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 ...

Williams played Division 1 basketball at the University of Tulsa, and now, years later, she is believed to be the first African American woman to officiate in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference.

New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge celebrates in the dugout with teammates after hitting a two-run home run during the fourth inning of the American League ... Willens) The AFRO knows what it ...

co-host of The Black Athlete podcast, and author of The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback, discussing the pioneering African American NFL ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

Leveling the Playing Field explores the contributions of African American athletes, both on and off the field. National Museum of American History Ice Skates, used by Sonja Henie National Museum of ...

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's struggle to decide the fate of an ancestral heirloom Gregory Wakeman The ...

The red-black-green flag we're highlighting today is the Pan-African flag, an important symbol of Black culture for members ...

The Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center has a new exhibition highlighting the work of Black ...

"Part of this discourse with LeBron and his son Bronny is that he is a visible African American athlete," said C. Keith Harrison, a professor specializing in sports and business management at the ...

He's called for a ban on transgender athletes in interscholastic competitions. His latest move, blocking the use of an advanced African American Studies curriculum in Florida public high schools ...