But in 1962, Wade Houston, Eddie Whitehead and Sam Smith became the first Black basketball players to don the ... estate and became one of the first African Americans to own a TV station.

Celebrating key Black players, coaches and referees who helped propel the sport of basketball and the NBA ... becoming the first African-American to sign an NBA contract and catch on with a ...

Black History Game celebrates women who paved the way and continues shining a light for women who will follow.

As a young African-American basketball player at Seton Hall in the 1990s, Shaheen Holloway played against Georgetown teams coached by John Thompson Jr. and struck up a relationship with the ...

One of his star players called him “more of a life coach than a basketball coach.” Another said he was “simply the best.” One friend called him “a civil rights ...