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January 31, 2009
NBA.com publishes an article, “Isaacs’ contributions should be honored by Hall of Fame,” about John Isaacs, Claude Johnson, and the Black Fives company, by NBA insider and TNT broadcast analyst David Aldridge. “Fortunately, people like Johnson wage lonely battles for both the intellectual and property rights of those who have passed on,” Aldridge writes. [More]
January 27, 2009
The New York Post publishes an article, “John Isaacs: Gone But Not Forgotten,” by sports columnist Peter Vescey. [More]
January 26, 2009
John “Boy Wonder” Isaacs, a former star basketball player and community leader, and an official spokesperson and consultant for Black Fives, Inc., dies at the Albert Einstein Hospital in the Bronx, New York, at age 93. [More]
January 2, 2009
Henry “Hank” DeZonie, who was a star basketball player with the Harlem Yankees, New York Renaissance, Dayton Rens of the National Basketball League, and Tri-Cities Blackhawks of the National Basketball Association, dies at Lenox Hill Hospital in Harlem., his lifelong home, at age 86. [More]
May 19, 2007
Black Fives founder Claude Johnson is featured in a Nova Scotia Chronicle-Herald article in connection with the annual Provincial Black Basketball Tournament held in Halifax.
April 5, 2007
The New York Sun publishes a feature article about the history of the Black Fives Era and Claude Johnson’s work to help revive it. [More]
March 28, 2007
The very popular UniWatch Blog features a post about Black Fives, Inc. and Claude Johnson. [More]
March 21, 2006
The Wall Street Journal publishes a feature article about the Black Fives Era and how Claude Johnson helped bring this history back into view. [More]
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