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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

One thing is for sure: his book is a postmodern delight. Sally Jacobs tells the story of tennis trailblazer Althea Gibson in this remarkable biography. Gibson was the first Black player to win a ...

But Ike’s army was bigger than Orval’s and things eventually settled down. In sports that year things were better for a young African-American woman named Althea Gibson who would win the Championship ...