Rockford West's Bennie Horton was NIC-10's first all-conference Black quarterback in 1968
West High's Bennie Horton was the NIC-10 all-conference quarterback. And coach Tom Schwalbach gave him extreme leeway to call ...
Bigger than basketball: Duke, filmmakers honor CB Claiborne, school’s first Black player
C.B. Claiborne’s Duke basketball story is worth remembering, and preserving. After a film screening highlighting the Blue ...
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New documentary tells the story of Duke’s first Black basketball player, who hailed from Danville
Javier Wallace, a postdoctoral associate at Duke University, was digging through the school’s archives while doing research ...
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Beyond basketball: George Gregory Jr., CC ’31, and his fight for civil rights
As the second Black basketball player in University history and the first to be named as an All-American, he shattered barriers on the court while preparing for a lifetime of breaking them beyond it.
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Reidsville's Jason Ross honored as among the top Black head coaches in the US
The Black Coaches Association has recognized Reidsville head basketball coach Jason Ross as one of the top 10 high school ...
Opill Leans Into The WNBA To Advance Reproductive Care For Black Women
With reproductive rights under increasing threat, Opill, the WNBA, and Black Women’s Health expanding partnership to reach ...
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Rutgers basketball: Kevin Black, former standout on title teams, has died at 64
Every good basketball team has a player like Kevin Black, who did a little bit of everything for Rutgers’ Atlantic 10 ...
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Bigger than basketball: Duke, filmmakers honor CB Claiborne, school’s first Black player
At one point early in a short documentary detailing his journey from his segregated high school in Danville, Virginia, to becoming Duke’s first Black basketball player in the mid-1960s ...