Learn about the significant contributions of African-Americans to basketball, including their rise to prominence in the NBA, coaching roles, and the league's efforts to promote diversity and inclusion ...

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 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 ...