PC: raseanj.blogspot.com 22 years ago today, Arthur Ashe, the beloved tennis player and activist, passed away from AIDS-related pneumonia. Ashe, who contracted the disease as a result of a blood transfusion following […]
Jane M. Bolin in 1942 On this very day seventy-five years ago, Jane M. Bolin became a pioneer for African-American females in law when she became the first black female […]
PC: South Africa The Good News Iconic. Revolutionary. The father of South Africa. Madiba. These are just a few of the many titles bestowed upon Nelson Mandela throughout the course […]
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. […]
Photograph © Carl Van Vechten Richard Wright was one of the most important black novelists of the 20th century, and “easily the most famous Negro novelist of the decade,” as […]
© Inside Tennis In the current issue of Inside Tennis Magazine, Bill Simons sits down one-on-one with Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe to discuss her first impressions of Arthur Ashe, what he was like as […]
In February of 1968, Arthur Ashe, then a lieutenant at West Point, received a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. At that time, he had yet to win a Grand […]
The month of January exhibits an interesting intersection between a cause, ‘National Poverty in America Awareness Month,’ and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday, the champion of the American Civil […]
In 1989, having just published A Hard Road to Glory, Arthur Ashe speaks with Harold Dow about African-Americans in sports and the role that African-American athletes have played in the greater […]
Beginning in 1993, the ESPN ESPY Awards have annually given out the Arthur Ashe Awards for Courage to an athlete or sports-related person or people who have displayed tremendous fortitude […]