Arthur Ashe Today
Current events as seen through the legacy of Arthur Ashe
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Michael Sam to Receive the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the 2014 ESPYS
Yesterday various news outlets announced that Michael…
American Sports: A Vehicle for Progressive Change?
© Southern Spaces Journal NY Times Op-Ed contributor Timothy…
Reflections from the 2014 Boston Marathon
Alexandra crossing the finish line This year one of our…
Jackie Robinson: Using sport as a platform for civic activism
To the average man in the average American…
Can students still pay their own way through college?
© Randy Olson for The Atlantic According to this article…
Health advice at a barbershop: A grassroots approach to public health on Flatbush Avenue
© Yana Paskova, New York Times Desmond Romeo, originally…
“If I can do it, you can do it. That was his message.”
On February 6, 1993 Arthur Ashe died of AIDS-related pneumonia…
A retrospective on Althea Gibson
In this poignant retrospective by Richard Evans he reflects…
Dr. King and SCLC leaders begin to march from Selma to Montgomery
On this day in 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other…
Healthy Children Will Become Healthy Adults: America’s Commitment to Reverse the Obesity Epidemic
Earlier this month The School Nutrition Association celebrated…
Arna Bontemps: A man of letters, and so much more
Arna Bontemps was a prominent literary figure throughout…
The Last Renaissance Woman: Dorothy West
"When I was a child of 4 or 5, listening to the conversation…
William Attaway: Blood on the Forge and the Great Migration
William Attaway was most well-known for the novel, Blood…
Carl Van Vechten: Capturing the Era
© Jorge Colombo, the New Yorker In the articles about black…
Willard Motley’s Chicago Style
© Car Van Vechten Willard Francis Motley was born in Chicago…
A Look Back: Figure Skater Debi Thomas
Today the world tunes in to the Sochi…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This day in 1885, Mark Twain published the popular and…
Zora Neale Hurston: A female perspective on voice and identity in black folk and literary culture
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga,…
Heart Health Matters!
Arthur Ashe suffered his first heart attack in 1979, while…
