Month: July 2015 | Arthur Ashe Legacy

Happy Birthday to Victoria Azarenka

©Tatiana, bit.ly/1ORlvey Happy birthday to Victoria Azarenka, born on this day in 1989. Azarenka is a professional tennis player from Belarus who earned a pair of Grand Slam titles at […]

Come So Far, Yet So Far to Go: the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games

July 29, 2015/in All Loretta Claiborne Olympics /by Joe

UCLA Tennis Teams Honored For Academic Excellence

July 28, 2015/in All Education Student Athlete Tennis UCLA /by Joe

Courtesy © UCLA Athletics, ITA Scholar-Athletes Kyle McPhillips (left) & Martin Redlikci (Photos: Scott Chandler) From childhood on, Arthur Ashe was always into books. Similarly to sports, books were a […]

The Death of a Civil Rights Activist Sandra Bland

July 24, 2015/in #BlackLivesMatter All American History Apartheid Civil Rights Sandra Bland /by Joe

© Heavy.com, Sandra Bland’s mugshot, left, and a photo from her Facebook page (Waller County Sheriff/Facebook) The death of 28-year-old black woman Sandra Bland has caused considerable controversy across the […]

Remembering Jane Bolin, First Black Female Judge in US History

July 23, 2015/in African American History All American History Civil Rights Education History Opportunity Service Womens History /by Joe

©US Office of War Information, Jane Bolin (1942) 76 years ago on July 22nd, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed 31-year-old Jane Matilda Bolin to be Judge of the […]

The Haitian Exodus

July 21, 2015/in All Arthur Ashe Haiti History Protest /by Joe

©AALC, Arthur getting arrested in 1992 during a demonstration Arthur Ashe dedicated his final years to the championship of great causes: from creating justice for African-Americans, to combatting AIDS, to […]

Remembering the 1976 Lagos Tennis Classic

July 13, 2015/in Africa All Arthur Ashe History Sport Tennis Travel /by Joe

In 1976, World Championship Tennis introduced a new tournament in Lagos, Nigeria, the first pro tournament in Black Africa. Unfortunately, the timing coincided with a devastating political assassination and attempted […]

The Legacy of Arthur Ashe

July 10, 2015/in 1960s African American History All Apartheid Arthur Ashe Civil Rights Education History Mentorship NJTL Opportunity Service Sport Student Athlete Tennis Wimbledon /by Joe

40th Anniversary of Arthur Ashe Wimbledon Win

July 5, 2015/in All Arthur Ashe History Sport Tennis Wimbledon /by Joe

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of Arthur Ashe’s historic victory over heavily favored Jimmy Connors at the All England Club. With his win he also became the first black man […]

Celebrating the Fourth of July: Black Military Service during the Revolutionary War

July 2, 2015/in African American History All American History Arthur Ashe Civil Rights History Opportunity Revolutionary War Service /by Joe

Continental soldiers at Yorktown; an African-American soldier of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment (left). Arthur Ashe was raised to view military service as an important duty, which was reflected in […]