Jim Crow Era Achievers Honored 50+ Years Later
The Virginia Interscholastic Association (VIA) Hall of Fame was created in 2014 to recognize Virginia’s Black teachers, coaches, administrators, and student-athletes who excelled during the [...]
Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss Fund digitization of VIA Archives at HBCU
Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss have made a generous donation to process, digitize, and catalog the Virginia Interscholastic Association (VIA) archives, which are housed [...]
Shirley Chisholm, ‘Unbought and Unbossed’, to be honored with walking trail
“Smart and sassy.” That is how former New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell described Brooklyn native Shirley Chisholm when she strolled into the nation’s political [...]
William Harvey ends extraordinary 44-year run as Hampton University president
In 1978, Dr. William R. Harvey grabbed hold of a struggling diamond-in-the-rough, small Black college in Hampton, Virginia, and fashioned it into a sparkling jewel [...]
Ora Washington: A gifted champion long ignored
Photo courtesy of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Over the years, the sports world has witnessed and paid tribute to superstar athletes [...]
Jimmie McDaniel vs. Don Budge: A Milestone Match
Don Budge (left) and Jimmie McDaniel played a barrier-breaking tennis match in 1940. Seven years before Jackie Robinson crossed the color line in [...]
Hubert A. Eaton, MD: A Key Althea Gibson Benefactor
Dr. Hubert A. Eaton and Althea Gibson. Photo from the NHC Library Star News Collection, courtesy of One Love Tennis. Two well-dressed physicians [...]
Whirlwind Johnson: A Legacy of Leadership
Photo courtesy of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Dr. Robert Walter “Whirlwind” Johnson acquired his nickname and a modicum of national [...]
Sifting Through the Stench of a Dying Democracy
In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., several of Dr. King’s sentiments in his “letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) addressed to ‘My [...]