Kinney Holbrook joined the Hawkeye football team in 1895, becoming the first African-American athlete in the history of the University of Iowa and the first documented black college athlete in the ...

Owens sided with the U.S. Olympic Committee against militant young African-American athletes at the 1968 Games. In 1970, he wrote "Blackthink," which criticized racial militancy. He said blacks ...

Before the Olympics, many African-American athletes had talked of joining a boycott of the Games to protest racial inequities in the United States. But the boycott, organized by sociologist Harry ...

The achievements and contributions of Black athletes from D.W. Daniel High School over the past 50 years are celebrated in ...

This scenario is nothing new for African-American athletes. When sports and race collide in the headlines, when Jones is the victim of on-field abuse, or Colin Kaepernick kneels during the U.S ...

Later, a second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the ...

Perhaps the most diverse league in professional sports today, the NBA, wasn t always known for being a game for all ...

These pioneering and high-achieving athletes demonstrate that women and girls have ... Babe Didrikson postcard from the 1932 Summer Olympic Games National Museum of African American History and ...