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 ...

Jets defensive tackle Solomon Thomas shares how Sandra Douglass Morgan became the first Black Woman to be president of an NFL team ... realities of being a Black athlete in the NFL then and ...

In 2016, McLaughlin-Levrone qualified for the U.S. Olympic track team ... The post Famous Black Female Athletes: From Rising Stars to Seasoned Players appeared first on 21Ninety.

1924 — Theresa Weld Blanchard wins her sixth and final U.S. figure skating championship. Sherwin Badger captures his fifth straight and final men’s title. 1928 — Sonja Henie, 15, becomes the ...

It was 1956, and the city of Denton was undergoing change that was met with resistance towards Black Americans.

Looney would become the first black athlete in Guntersville High School ... High as a volunteer coach for the girl’s basketball team.

“As the team checked into the hotel the night ... Al said this about becoming Mizzou’s first Black scholarship athlete: “The chance to be the first of my race ever to be awarded an athletic ...

He was the first Black scholarship athlete at Virginia Tech ... he went out for the track team. While practicing the hurdles, he took a nasty fall that made him consider quitting the event.

John Armstrong Howard is the first Black athlete to represent Canada in the ... Angela James leads the Canadian women's hockey team to a gold medal at the Women's World Hockey Championships.