Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund Advisory Board Member Biographies Adrienne Umeh Adrienne Umeh is the current assistant director of operations at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in New […]
I like to say I owe my life to college sports. In the 1950s, my father became one of the first African-Americans to play basketball at the University of Oregon. […]
Dear Arthur, I did not have much growing up. My parents are both immigrants from Sierra Leone. My dad was a janitor at a tennis facility in Maryland, and I […]
He strolled into Westwood as a student for the first time in 1961, a pioneer before his 18th birthday. He excelled as a Bruin and beyond, blossoming into one of […]
It was not always easy being Arthur Ashe’s brother. How could it have been? “I was constantly being compared to Arthur, being asked why I wasn’t a clone of Arthur,” […]
Venus and Serena Williams share a close bond despite their ongoing tennis rivalry. Students of the Arthur Ashe legacy, the sisters can still learn something from the mighty brotherly gesture […]
The United States Tennis Association hosted the seventh annual U.S. Open Military Appreciation Day Monday at the 2018 U.S. Open in Flushing, New York. Department of Defense service members and […]
WASHINGTON — In the spring of 1967, Arthur Ashe, an Army second lieutenant, was honing his tennis skills as an accomplished amateur player, eyeing a shot to compete in a […]
