We had some very significant basketball history milestones this week. The Loendi Big Five On November 5, 1900, the Loendi Social and Literary Club was incorporated in Pittsburgh, Pa. The club’s basketball team, the Loendi Big Five, dominated black basketball during the 1910s and early 1920s. The organization itself was the most prestigious African American [...]
Andrew Carnegie wasn’t perfect. But he held a strong moral conviction about the equality of all races, and therefore had a deep respect, appreciation, and affection for African Americans. He demonstrated this through his relationship with Booker T. Washington, whom he called “the combined Moses and Joshua of his people” and “perhaps the most remarkable [...]
In 1904, Edwin B. Henderson showed up at Harvard University’s Summer School of Arts and Sciences to learn how to be a gym teacher. The renovated court at Hemenway where Henderson learned basket-ball. Hemenway Gymnasium exterior. The courses were still being taught by Dudley Allen Sargent, the leader of the physical fitness movement in America. [...]
Big name covers from way back include Ray Charles, Leontyne Price, Kim Weston (my favorite), and Melba Moore … but what about Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, Fantasia, Ciara, or Rihanna?
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