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Celebrating Black History: First Black UofL basketball players share how they broke the color barrier
But in 1962, Wade Houston, Eddie Whitehead and Sam Smith became the first Black basketball players to don the ... estate and became one of the first African Americans to own a TV station.
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Black History Month: List of first Black players to reach NBA milestones
Celebrating key Black players, coaches and referees who helped propel the sport of basketball and the NBA ... becoming the first African-American to sign an NBA contract and catch on with a ...
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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Saint Peter’s coach Shaheen Holloway pays ‘towel tribute’ to John Thompson: ‘I wouldn’t be here without him’
As a young African-American basketball player at Seton Hall in the 1990s, Shaheen Holloway played against Georgetown teams coached by John Thompson Jr. and struck up a relationship with the ...