Announcing the Black Fives Community Fund

On January 14, 2010, in Basic, Being, Community, Culture, Featured, Goodwill, Motivation, Press Release, Relationships, by Black Fives

The Black Fives Community Fund benefits social, educational, cultural, and civic improvement in neighborhoods where teams of the Black Fives Era once played.

My Excellent Story Of Father Hesburgh, Vienna, The Congo, Notre Dame, Obama, And A Family Photo Album

In 1961, during a summer job in Vienna, Austria, my father took pivotal advice from Father Theodore Hesburgh, now President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.

The Black Fives Community Fund

On May 8, 2009, in , by Black Fives

The Black Fives Community Fund is a way for you to connect your interest in the pre-N.B.A. history of African Americans in basketball with meaningful social, educational, cultural, and civic improvement efforts in communities where the teams of the Black Fives Era originally played.

Monday Free Throws

On November 24, 2008, in Basic, Politics, by Black Fives

First POTUS-elect With Game The Chicago Tribune has a new (old) take on Obama in Another milestone: Obama 1st president who’s got game: In Barack Obama, Americans have truly made history. We have elected to the White House, for the first time, a basketball player. The nation has had its bowlers-in-chief, its baseball first-pitch throwers [...]

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“We were helping our race by fortifying the bodies of our people in this, the struggle for existence, where only the fittest survive.”
-- Conrad Norman, Co-Founder, Alpha Physical Culture Club, 1910

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