Posts Tagged “Black Fives Era”

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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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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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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I want to mention several recent and upcoming birthdays, related to the Black Fives Era of basketball.

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Audio of the Black Fives segment with Claude Johnson featured on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

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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.”

Sold Out McCullough Lecture

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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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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.

Black basketball pioneer Major A. HartAfter basketball, Hart became a Federal Prohibition Agent.

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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.

Andrew Carnegie's study

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