[SIDEBAR: He asked Jordan and Magic Johnson to boycott, and they refused? Deep.] Tweet
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Jesse Owens On The Aftermath Of His Olympic Win
“Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.” -Jesse Owens Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Jasmine Plummer
Jasmine Plummer is the first female quarterback to lead her team to the Pop Warner Super Bowl. Her life story inspired the movie, “The Longshots.” Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »How The KKK Helped Prevent Michael Jordan & Patrick Ewing From Being College Teammates
“Patrick Ewing, a seven-foot Jamaican from Boston, the most heralded recruit in that year’s senior class, met Jordan for the first time that weekend in October when they made their official visit to the Carolina campus… Years later, the center would reveal that he was seriously considering playing for Dean Smith until he returned to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: The Pioneering All-Black Hockey League
22 years before the formation of the National Hockey League (NHL), there was an all-Black Hockey league called, The Colored Hockey League of Maritimes in Nova Scotia. This league was pioneering. The play of the teams made hockey a fast-paced game. Also, the slap shot was said to be first used in this league, as […]
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