
Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson Were Trailblazers in Golf, Too
Years after breaking the color barriers that surrounded baseball and tennis, Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson changed yet another sport.
Untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience

Years after breaking the color barriers that surrounded baseball and tennis, Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson changed yet another sport.

The Gold Dust Twins advertising campaign used caricatured Black children to sell cleaning products, which reinforced racist stereotypes and white nostalgic myths of Black servitude in the 20th-century United States.

Vivian Malone and James Hood calmly faced reporters as they prepared to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963, symbolizing the determination of Black youth in the face of those who were staunchly opposed to desegregation.

Lifelong learner Edwin Moses founded his tremendous success on the relationships he forged and the skills he developed at Morehouse College.

Mose Wright’s 1955 testimony at the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers demonstrates that fear did not hinder Black resistance during the civil rights era.

The story of Black women and track and field through the lens of one of the early greats, Wilma Rudolph.

Once enslaved and later the first Black American to graduate from West Point, Henry Ossian Flipper is America’s overlooked, trailblazing antihero.

His victories, entrepreneurial spirit, and flamboyance in and out of the ring made Sugar Ray Robinson the quintessential modern athlete.

Pittsburgh’s segregated Hill District became a hub of jazz and Black culture. Charles “Teenie” Harris, the renowned photographer and chronicler of Black life, captured it all.

The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.