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 [...]
Is Democracy Sounding Its Death Rattle?
Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing --- Thomas Jefferson [...]
Open Letter to Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema
Dear Senators Manchin and Sinema, Republican state legislators in 48 states have passed or proposed 389 restrictive voting laws (Brennan Center of Justice, May 2021) [...]