Community, Access Entertainment, and Four Daughters are teaming on an adaptation of The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: ...

Author Ashley Brown will speak at the Los Angeles Tennis Club on her new book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea ...

Winning a Grand Slam is every tennis player's dream, but winning 23 of them in singles and 14 in women's doubles with your ...

Before Althea Gibson could play -- much less win -- major tennis tournaments, another opponent had to be defeated. But Gibson had less control against this foe, which went by the name segregation.

Netflix’s ‘Nonnas’ writer will turn Bruce Schoenfeld’s account of a Jewish woman and a Black woman forming an unlikely ...

On Monday, Day 1 at the US Open and Women's Equality Day, a statue of Althea Gibson was unveiled in Flushing Meadows. Placed just outside Arthur Ashe stadium, the sculpture—created by Eric ...

With this latest project, the Williams sisters and Isha Price shine a spotlight on the life-changing potential of sport ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States Tennis Association will honor Althea Gibson with a statue at the U.S. Open. The first African-American to win the U.S. Nationals singles title in 1957 will be ...

"Even with the 1940s tennis star Althea Gibson, she went to great lengths to keep her tennis whites white. The ability to keep your whites white takes a great deal of labor, mindfulness ...

ITF Masters World Team Championships for players aged 60 and over through to 70 and over will take place in Palm Beach ...

Althea Gibson was Black, and Angela Buxton was Jewish. And in 1956, they faced prevailing racism in the UK and changed the face of professional tennis by winning the ladies’ doubles trophy at ...

The Match is an adaptation from Bruce Schoenfeld's book, The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: How Two Outsiders – One Black, the Other Jewish – Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History ...