Yesterday various news outlets announced that Michael Sam, a former defensive end at the University of Missouri, would be the recipient of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2014 […]
© Southern Spaces Journal NY Times Op-Ed contributor Timothy Egan offers an interesting perspective on the power of sport to be a catalyst for progressive attitudes and change in American […]
Alexandra crossing the finish line This year one of our very own Arthur Ashe Learning Center board members, Alexandra Dell, decided to run the Boston Marathon. In addition to running […]
To the average man in the average American community, Jackie Robinson was just what the sports pages said he was, no more, no less. He was the first Negro to […]
© Randy Olson for The Atlantic According to this article in The Atlantic, it is unlikely. Many economists have tried to calculate the growth rate of college tuition compared with […]
© Yana Paskova, New York Times Desmond Romeo, originally from Trinidad, opened Dr. Cuts on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn twelve years ago. Since that time he has worked closely with […]
On February 6, 1993 Arthur Ashe died of AIDS-related pneumonia in New York at the age of 49. His body was laid in state at the Governor’s Mansion in his hometown […]
In this poignant retrospective by Richard Evans he reflects on Althea Gibson’s legacy as the first African American to win a Grand Slam title and the significance of this achievement […]
On this day in 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other religious and lay leaders led the 54 mile “Alabama Freedom March” from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital. […]
Earlier this month The School Nutrition Association celebrated National School Breakfast Week, the culmination of its annual campaign to promote school breakfasts and the importance and intersection of nutrition and […]