Reflections from the 2014 Boston Marathon
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 […]
Jackie Robinson: Using sport as a platform for civic activism
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by JoeTo 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 […]
Can students still pay their own way through college?
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Joe© 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 […]
Health advice at a barbershop: A grassroots approach to public health on Flatbush Avenue
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Joe© 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 […]
A retrospective on Althea Gibson
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by JoeIn 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 […]
William Attaway: Blood on the Forge and the Great Migration
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by JoeWilliam Attaway was most well-known for the novel, Blood on the Forge, a story of three brothers who escape sharecropping life in the south to migrate north and find a new life […]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by JoeThis day in 1885, Mark Twain published the popular and controversial, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Now a core of part of the American literary cannon, approximately 200,000 copies are […]
Zora Neale Hurston: A female perspective on voice and identity in black folk and literary culture
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by JoeZora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. Hurston’s literary career hit its stride in the 1930’s and 1940’s when she publishedTheir Eyes Were Watching God; […]
Heart Health Matters!
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by JoeArthur Ashe suffered his first heart attack in 1979, while holding a tennis clinic in New York. He was forty-six years old. Despite his peak physical condition as a professional […]
Arthur Ashe Learning Center Inspirational Tour
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Joe…is an interactive, experiential exhibit built around the life, legacy and values of Arthur Ashe. “We hope that Arthur’s exemplary life will send the message to visitors that through education, service […]
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