Posts Tagged “Race”
Posted by Black Fives in Basic, Community, Culture, History, Motivation, Press Release, tags: Black History Month, BlackFives.com, Claude Johnson, easton massachusetts, intercultural affairs, Massachusetts, Race, race relations in the united states, Stonehill College
Stonehill College will host Claude Johnson, founder and president of Black Fives, Inc., for a free public presentation and discussion on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.
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Posted by Black Fives in Culture, Featured, N.B.A., Premium, Race, tags: African American, Allen Iverson, Barack Obama, Basketball, Bethlehem Shoals, Black, Black Fives, Charles Oakley, Dennis Rodman, FreeDarko.com, Jason Williams, Kirk Hinrich, N.B.A., Players, Race, Tim Duncan, White Chocolate
This is a tough one.
And I’m not going to make it any easier by defining what “black” means. You decide. Is it a color? A skill? An attitude? A Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Black Fives in Basic, Culture, Family, Politics, Race, Relationships, tags: A Course In Miracles, Barack Obama, Black, Color, History, Law of Attraction, Love, Make History Now, Marianne Williamson, Oprah, Race, Racism
This one was interesting because many people of one race (or another) completely agreed with me, while others of the same race completely disagreed. And so on.
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Posted by Black Fives in Basic, Culture, Family, Featured, History, Motivation, Race, tags: Culture, Democrats, Diversity, Ethnicity, Fear, History, Make History Now, Media, Politics, Presidential Election, Race, Racism, Republicans
I’ve long believed there’s no such thing as racism. Don’t get me wrong. “Race” exists. Culture exists. Ethnicity exists. But, are we focusing so much on racism that we’re forgetting about addressing its causes? I think racism Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Black Fives in Being, History, Premium, Race, tags: Barack Obama, Black, Fear, Love, Presidential Candidate, Race, Racism, Ugly Truth, White
I hear people, particularly black people, making comments along the lines of this one: People see what they want to see in order to justify their “ugly truth;” they just can’t imagine electing a black man, qualified or not, to the office of President of the United States.
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Posted by Black Fives in Basic, Community, Culture, History, Race, tags: African American, Barack Obama, Black, Black Fives, Black In America, Cage Shirt, CNN, New York Rens, Race, Ryan Kernan, Soledad O'Brien, U.C.L.A.
CNN’s “Black In America” special is tired, tedious, and out of date.
It’s what you expect from CNN: negative, fear-based, dumbed-down sensationalism. It’s a boring, depressing, uninspiring drag. CNN started out on Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Black Fives in History, Premium, tags: 1900, African American, Basketball, Black, Boston, Calisthenics, Dudley Allen Sargent, Dumb-bells, Edwin B. Henderson, Harvard University, Hemenway, Hemenway Gymnasium, Players, Race, Washington D.C., Weights
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.
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The renovated court at Hemenway where Henderson learned basket-ball.
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Hemenway Gymnasium exterior.
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Posted by Black Fives in History, Premium, tags: 1800s, African American, Basketball, Black, Booker T. Washington, Boston, Celtics, Dudley Allen Sargent, Harvard University, Hemenway Gymnasium, History, Luther Gulick, Muscular Christianity, Race, Springfield College, Teddy Roosevelt, Vintage
Basketball was in Boston long before the Celtics.
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Hemenway Gymnasium today.
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The roots of the sport (especially among black folks) trace back to the Hemenway Gymnasium on the campus of Harvard University, and a guy named Dudley Allen Sargent. I’d known about it but never seen the Hemenway Gym until I stumbled upon it this week while driving by on the way to Boston Garden. I couldn’t resist going inside to look around. It’s a modernized 4-story structure inside a vintage shell. “Is this the old Hemenway Gymnasium?,” I asked. “Yes, but they’ve renovated it and there’s nothing left,” said the staffer. “But, isn’t there anything historical remaining?,” I asked. “Well, the only thing left is the original basketball court,” she said, apologetically. “Oh, really?,” I asked. “Can I see it?” Isn’t persistence great? Sargent was one of the earliest advocates of of the link between “bodily vigor” (that is, athletic competition) and Christian virtues. In the mid-1800s this was known as ‘Muscular Christianity.’ It was a forerunner of the physical fitness movement. Sargent’s way of thinking:
Some of the specific mental and physical qualities which are developed by athletics are increased powers of attention, will, concentration, accuracy, alertness, quickness of perception, perseverance, reason, judgment, forbearance, patience, obedience, self-control, loyalty to leaders, self-denial, submergence of self, grace, poise, suppleness, courage, strength and endurance. These qualities are as valuable to women as to men.
Seems like he was Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Black Fives in Basic, Featured, History, Humor, tags: African American, Barack Obama, Basketball, Bible, Bill Gates, Birth Of A Nation, Black, Black Fives, Capitalism, Chocolate, Connecticut, Genesis, Germany, Greenwich, HBO, History, Incorporators, Ku Klux Klan, Lessons, Mentality, N.B.A., N.B.A. Playoffs, New York, Nike, Philadelphia Panthers, Politics, President Wilson, Race, Religion, Sex, St. Christopher Club, Teams
These are “taboo” topics I’ve covered so far in this basketball history related blog: race, politics, sex, religion, war, mentality, and money. Conventional wisdom said “don’t do it” since after all, this isn’t The Assimilated Negro, Huffington Post, BlogXilla, Dissident Voice, Gawker, or other great blogs that push the envelope in these areas one way or another. But I couldn’t resist. So here’s the Black Fives Blog’s own Top Taboo Topics List: Race
Time Out For A Moment Every once in
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