By Vince Thomas for TheRoot.com (Originally posted March 10, 2010.) Before the NBA was desegregated, there were the Black Fives. Alpha Physical Culture Club, Harlem, New York, 1910. There’s a good 50-year gap in the story of basketball’s evolution. We go from the game’s invention late in the 19th century and fast forward to the [...]
A unique photo exhibit helps grow the new Black Fives Community Fund, which benefits the neighborhoods where original Black Fives basketball teams once played.
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.
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.
Audio of the Black Fives segment with Claude Johnson featured on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
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.” The lecture, which was free to the public,
The Basketball Hall of Fame will form a special review committee to look at overlooked African American candidates, but there’s a catch.
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. After basketball, Hart became a Federal Prohibition Agent.
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