Posts Tagged “Black Fives Era”
Posted by Black Fives in Basic, Being, Community, Culture, Goodwill, tags: Black Fives Community Fund, Black Fives Era, Cos Cob, Garden Education Center, Garden of Eden, Greenwich, Photography, photomicrography, Pineatum, The Flower of Now
A unique photo exhibit helps grow the new Black Fives Community Fund, which benefits the neighborhoods where original Black Fives basketball teams once played.
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Posted by Black Fives in Children, Community, Culture, Family, N.B.A., Premium, Race, Relationships, tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Black Fives Era, Boy Wonder, Hank DeZonie, John Isaacs, New York Renaissance, New York Rens
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.
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Posted by Black Fives in Children, Community, Culture, Family, History, Premium, Relationships, Religion, tags: 1909, Basketball, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bishop Chapel A.M.E. Church, Black, Black Fives, Black Fives Era, Charles Scottron, Ferdinand Accooe, History, John Isaacs, Lincoln Theater, Metropolitan A.M.E Church, New York Renaissance, Players, Rev. Accooe, Smart Set Athletic Club, Teams, Teddy Horne
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.
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Posted by Black Fives in Basic, Film, History, N.B.A., Race, Relationships, tags: 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1920, 1948, African American, Basketball, Basketball Hall of Fame, Black, Black Fives, Black Fives Era, Breaking Through, Columbia University, Commonwealth Big Five, Don Barksdale, Dr. James Naismith, History, Joe Lapchick, John McLendon, N.B.A., N.C.A.A., National Invitational Tournament, Negro Leagues, New York All Stars, New York Knicks, New York Rens, Paul Robeson, Philadelphia Panthers, Players, Rutgers, Smart Set Athletic Club, St. Christopher, St. Christopher Club, Teams, U.C.L.A.
I want to mention several recent and upcoming birthdays, related to the Black Fives Era of basketball.
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Posted by Black Fives in Culture, Family, International, Music, Politics, tags: 1910, 1950, African American, Basketball, Black, Black Fives, Black Fives Era, Black Women's Basketball History Month, Claude Johnson, Converse, Gary Owen, History, Kym Whitley, New York Girls, Nike, Teams, Tom Joyner, Vintage, White House
Audio of the Black Fives segment with Claude Johnson featured on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
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Posted by Black Fives in Books, Featured, History, Motivation, Politics, Premium, Relationships, tags: Black, Black Fives, Black Fives Era, Black History, Books, Carnegie Mellon University, David McCullough, Greenwich, Greenwich Public Library, HBO, History, J.K. Rowling, John Adams, Make History Now, Martha's Vineyard, Panama Canal, Penguin Classics, Pittsburgh, Politics, President Truman, Pulitzer Prize, Rosalie McCullough
The title of David McCullough’s sold out lecture last night in the Cole Auditorium at Greenwich Public Library was “You Are What You Read.”
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Posted by Black Fives in Basic, History, N.B.A., Race, tags: 1904, 1950, 2008, African American, Basketball, Basketball Hall of Fame, Bernie Price, Black, Black Fives, Black Fives Era, Claude Johnson, Cumberland Posey, Dan Klores, Earl Monroe, Edwin B. Henderson, Enshrinement, Fats Jenkins, Glory Road, Harlem Globetrotters, HBCUs, History, John Doleva, John Isaacs, N.B.A., New York Rens, Ora Mae Washington, Pioneers, Players, Ron Chimelis, Sonny Boswell, Springfield, Teams, Washington
The Basketball Hall of Fame will form a special review committee to look at overlooked African American candidates, but there’s a catch.
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Posted by Black Fives in Business, Community, History, Premium, tags: 1927, African American, Basketball, Black, Black Fives, Black Fives Era, Bootleggers, Bootlegging, Buffalo, Major A. Hart, New York All Stars, Prohibition, Teams
Last week marked the 81st anniversary of the sudden death of Major A. Hart, a pioneer of the Black Fives Era, on July 16, 1927.
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 After basketball, Hart became a Federal Prohibition Agent.
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Posted by Black Fives in History, Premium, tags: Abraham, African American, Andrew Carnegie, Benevolence, Black, Black Fives, Black Fives Era, Booker T. Washington, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Giving, Napoleon Hill, New York City, Think And Grow Rich
You can tell a lot about someone by their office. Or study. What’s in it, how it’s kept, what’s on the walls … these are all clues.
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