Learn about the significant contributions of African-Americans to basketball, including their rise to prominence in the NBA, ...

As David A. Goldstein details in his recent book “Alley-Oop to Aliyah: African-American Hoopsters in the Holy Land,” Watson is far from the only black basketball player to do these things.

The NBA is an outlier in the world of sports when it comes to the race of its players, as it is one of the only professional sports leagues where African American players make up the majority of ...

former Illinois State head coach Jill Hutchison and legendary African American basketball player Ora Washington. Jennifer Azzi was an All-American guard at Stanford. In 1990 she was awarded the ...

the first African American basketball player at Duke. A select group — including Emmy-nominated producer and editor Funmi Ogunro and Martin Paul Smith, executive producer and an assistant ...

In 1981, he became one of the first African American basketball players in 14 years to graduate from Murray State University in Business Administration. The road wasn’t easy. Torrel recalls ...

Nigerian telecom operator, Globacom, has revealed plans to celebrate the late Congolese-American basketball legend and philanthropist, Dikembe Mutombo, on the Cable News Network International’s ...

For certain, young African Americans see the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves uber-athletic guard Anthony Edwards and the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens astonishing quarterback Lamar Jackson as representations ...