Study shows that Black coaches in the NCAA graduate 84.5 percent of their student-athletes; a rate higher than their white counterparts The gap in graduation rates of Black and white NCAA Division I basketball players grew over the past year, according to a study of the male and female teams projected to make the NCAA […]
View MoreCategory: African American Sports
The Black Girls Cheer Movement Empowers Young Cheerleaders of Color | Black Enterprise
A movement to empower young black girls is gaining momentum, according to ABC News, thanks to Black Girls Cheer. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Sharita Richardson was and still is fond of cheerleading, a lifelong passion. The woman with roots in North Carolina started cheerleading in middle school. As a mother, she raised three daughters who cheered competitively. […]
View More
They Came Before Tiger Woods: Wake-Robin Golf Club, Inc | Praise 104.1
For Black History Month, WOL News Talk 1450 AM, WYCB My Spirit 1340 and Praise 104.1 will be taking a look at golfers who came before Tiger Woods and the struggles to play the game in a segregated society. Today we take a look at the Royal Golf Club. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Royals are brother […]
View More
Morehouse College Makes History As The First HBCU To Have A Polo Team | Because of Them We Can
Morehouse College just became the first Historically Black College & University (HBCU) to have a polo team. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Morehouse Polo Club was started in 2019 by students Rian Toussaint, Justin Wynn, and Caleb Cherry, in partnership with Miguel Wilson, owner of the Ride To The Olympics Foundation, HBCU Buzz reports. Cherry is an […]
View More
Montgomery Co. Sports Hall of Fame’s inaugural class includes 2 Olympic gold medalists | Montgomery Community Media
Twenty-three years removed from her days as a gold medal-winning gymnast with the U.S. Olympic team in the 1996 Atlanta Games, Dominique Dawes still can’t stop moving. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As a mother of four small children, there is little time to reminisce about the old days. But Dawes is still making a positive impact in […]
View More
Herman Boone, high school football coach who inspired ‘Remember the Titans,’ dies at 84 | The Washington Post
Herman Boone, a trailblazing football coach who led Alexandria’s T.C. Williams High School to a Virginia state championship in 1971 and was later portrayed by Denzel Washington in the Hollywood film “Remember the Titans,” died Dec. 18 at his home in Alexandria. He was 84. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The cause was lung cancer, said his daughters, […]
View More
Ethel Johnson, Early Black Wrestling Star, Is Dead at 83 | The New York Times
Beginning in the 1950s, she and her two athletic sisters helped expand the demographics of the ring.
View More
How Sports Agent Nicole Lynn Is Making Major League Money Moves In A Male-Dominated Industry | xoNecole
“The goal is not simply to be accepted. The goal will always be to break stereotypes and shift attitudes towards the presence of women in male-dominated spaces.”
View More
Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home | NPR
Eighty years ago this month, the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, with 18 African-American athletes part of the U.S. squad. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Track star Jesse Owens, one of the greatest Olympians of all time, won four gold medals. What the 17 other African-American Olympians did in Berlin, though, […]
View More
Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix just broke one of Usain Bolt’s world records | CNN
Lauren M. Johnson, CNN The longtime couple have finally become engaged, celebrating with family and friends. (Image via NBC Chicago). Featured Image [dropcap]C[/dropcap]NN – Not so fast, Usain Bolt — there’s a new World Championships record holder, and her name is Allyson Felix. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] USA Olympic sprinter Felix broke Bolt’s record Sunday after winning […]
View More
You must be logged in to post a comment.