You might vote Hoop Dreams to the top. Documentarian Steve James followed two African American high school basketball stars as they set out on their quest to join the NBA. The movie examined all of the factors that contribute to the future of these young men including race, social class, ...
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“The Jordan Brand has signed more WNBA players than any other year,” Swoopes, who now works for Nike Basketball, told The Undefeated. “I think what that says is, even Jordan sees something different and something special in female athletes and the women in the W, that they don...
This has proven to be an issue that lies not only in race. Oftentimes, the Black male counterparts of female athletes are encouraged and expected to show a larger range of emotions during performances than Black women are. Big time NBA stars display “arrogance” through taunting routinely, and...
Oh yeah, I definitely do. Especially as a female in hip-hop and coming up in this climate and we see how for me, our talent is looked at as less than because we're women, just the images that are portrayed and pushed to the forefront. So I think it's up to the men. It's a...
The young lady that intervened is only known as “Marie.” Tristan Thompson, a Canadian professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA, had a well publicized cheating affair … with “Marie” while he was in a high profile committed relationship with the Armenian Witch, ...
He did so in 1884, playing for the Toledo Mud Hens, and later the Syracuse Stars. After Moses, professional baseball was segregated until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Syracuse Nationals star Earl Lloyd was the first African American to play professional basketball in the NBA...
We are one month away from the start of The Olympic Games. The global pandemic may have slowed things down, but they definitely didn’t put a complete stop from the world’s top athletes going for the gold. This year’s long list of athletes include some one-in-a-lifetime female compe...
Then she became the most-decorated Grammy winner ever. Beyoncé’s fearlessness, talent, beauty, and artistry will continue to influence and inspire Black female artists for millennia.”– Honey Dijon Patrick Mahomes II | 2X Super Bowl MVP Black Pioneers, Artists,...
"If I can stay funny, then I can stay alive," Foxx says in What Happened Was.. . "I'm back." Foxx taking his audience back to 2023 and his “Mystery Illness Scare,” the now 57-year-old comedian says, “What had happened was…. April 11, I was having a bad ...