By Christian Bliss, For The African-American Athlete In a league where 95 percent of the players are white, one black defenseman managed to flip the hockey world on its head by playing the g... Read more
This column by the gifted young writer Eric Woodyard appeared in the Flint (MI) Journal following Saturday’s controversial IBF super middle weight championship fight between Flint... Read more
By Rickey Hampton, Editor and Founder of The African-American Athlete (Editors note: An updated repost from last May.) Willie Mays turns 87th birthday (May 6) on Sunday. But it is never too... Read more
By Michael Roberson, For The African-American Athlete With the University of North Carolina Tar Heels just recently winning the 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship, it har... Read more
The African-American Athlete Facebook page recently topped the 30,000 Likes mark! I want to thank you for your continued support of The African-American Athlete. We celebrate the acc... Read more
By Rickey Hampton, For The African-American Athlete With the 2017 baseball season only days away, I wonder if any of today’s Major League Baseball players have an understanding of why their... Read more
The perplexing, tragic case of Troy Causey, the Dallas high school basketball player, who died after a fight with another Dallas high school basketball star, Johnathan Turner, in 2014, has... Read more
Let me introduce you to the most courageous man I know. His name is Willie McQueen, and he is the toughest, most indomitable young man I have ever met. Willie McQueen has met some of life’s... Read more
As baseball prepares to celebrate Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier on April, 15, 1947, it is also a good time to take note of another historic event that occurred in 1971. When the... Read more
Very few of us can claim perfection. Notre Dame College’s Joey Davis can. Recently, the Compton, Calif., native made history, capturing his fourth consecutive NCAA Division II title (1... Read more
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