Sports have played a vital role in African ... Robinson exemplified courage and resilience when he became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball’s modern era.

2013: Sheila Johnson becomes the first African-American female member of the USGA Executive Committee. When elected, she was the only African-American woman to have ownership of three professional ...

While the African-American population in baseball remains flat at just 8%, according to an examination of opening-day rosters conducted by USA TODAY Sports ... was the first African-American ...

Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state ... and another was added on African Americans in sports.

The 39th annual Greater Flint African American Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony ... He also tallied 1,038 career points at Northern and earned first team all-state in 1971 before playing ...

The Lexington African-American Sports Hall of Fame (LAASHOF ... 270 assists and a career field-goal percentage of 51.5. Givens was drafted 16th overall in the first round of the 1978 NBA Draft by ...

On Tuesday evening, Feb. 7, the Greater Flint African American Sports Hall of Fame held their first in-person event in three years at the Flint Public Library At this event, the 2023 inductees to ...

On Sept. 24 in a banquet and ceremony at the Central Bank Center, the Lexington African-American Sports Hall of Fame will induct its first class. The deadline to buy tickets for the event is Sept.

When I returned to Memphis in 1973, most African Americans who played golf gathered at T. O. Fuller Golf Course. It was the first 18-hole course built for African Americans during segregation.