This story was originally published in 2009. In honor of Black History Month, we're bringing it back. The story of Jackie Robinson’s struggle to integrate Major League Baseball is told in a ...

James Hurley, the first ... Georgia football team’s roster, will be honored at an award ceremony on Sept. 29. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the Association for the Study of African American ...

D.C., where Hill became the first Black player on the football team. Then, he did it again at the Naval Academy. "I was the first African-American to play football for any military academy." ...

Gene Derricotte, one of the University of Michigan’s first African-American athletes, who played on back-to-back national championship football teams in 1947 and 1948, earned degrees in pharmacy ...

Ole Miss football is retiring the number of a ... 74 jersey number of defensive lineman Ben Williams, who was the first African American to play in a varsity game for Ole Miss.

(WHTM) – For the first time in the history of college football, an African American head coach will ... for many others and many of our players that look the same way I do,” said Freeman.

An Athens organization recently honored the first Black football player at the University ... branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).