Officer Donnell “Dee” Fludd of the Greenwich (Ct.) Police Department talks about his flag football league for kids, a community effort that makes a difference.
January is a difficult month for friends and fans of the New York “Rens” of Harlem, the all-black pro basketball team that played in 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
Isaacs was born September 30, 1915 and would’ve been 94 years old today. The day he first saw our ‘Rens’ throwback jersey is a fond memory now.
This story from a Black Fives Era descendant links the distant basketball past with the funeral of New York Renaissance star John Isaacs earlier this year.
How an old acquaintance, a family trip, a near chance encounter, and a vintage photograph allowed me to ‘make history now’ inside the White House.
If you got a personal tour of the White House, by a senior appointed official, what (very quick) question would you ask the President if you bumped into him?
In 1961, during a summer job in Vienna, Austria, my father took pivotal advice from Father Theodore Hesburgh, now President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.
Can we learn lessons about life, politics, and leadership from doing a jigsaw puzzle?
My earliest memories of him were of him teaching us basketball.
Rarely did he just stand by, he was always into it all.
From ESPN.com: John “Wonder Boy” Isaacs, 93, was the last living player for the Harlem Renaissance, the great all-black team in the 1920′s, 1930′s and 1940′s. It would be fitting for the Basketball Hall of Fame to one day induct this pioneer.
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