C.B. Claiborne’s Duke basketball story is worth remembering, and preserving. After a film screening highlighting the Blue ...

Nike have kind of had reverse history. Nike started with running, made a splash with basketball, then expanded into other ...

The Chicago tennis champion and basketball star was considered one of the best Black female athletes of her time, but her story has been overlooked in history, author Robert Pruter writes.

SAN FRANCISCO – The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced today at NBA All-Star Weekend 2025 the selection of 17 ...

Not every member of the “First Five” graduated from the University, but they are remembered collectively as trailblazers who ...

An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

That title game became one of the most documented finals in history -- it remains the highest-rated college basketball ... African-American fans. But a healthy, respected rivalry between two ...

Alabama basketball is coming off its first Final Four season, but it has had some legendary players. Here are the top 10 in program history.

Javier Wallace, a postdoctoral associate at Duke University, was digging through the school’s archives while doing research ...

The team's stated goal is to “spread goodwill worldwide," and it has routinely contributed to basketball’s growth and society’s betterment.

Ashe's resume includes three Grand Slam titles and the title of the first Black player selected to the ... historic walk to school as the first African American student to integrate the all ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...