Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal,...
Oliver Lewis made history on May 17, 1875, when he rode Aristides to victory in the inaugural Kentucky Derby. The race, held at the newly opened Louisville Jockey Club track—later officially...
Sugar Ray Robinson is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time. Robinson held the world welterweight...
Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers....
Henry Armstrong was the first boxer to hold simultaneous world championship titles in three different divisions: the featherweight, welterweight and lightweight world champion in 1938. Born on December 12, 1912, in...
Fred “Duke” Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century....
“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship...
George Coleman Poage was the first African-American athlete to represent the United States in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St. Louis. Poage was born...
John Armstrong Howard was the first Black Olympic athlete from Canada, competing in the 1912 Summer Olympics. The...
Harry Jerome was one of the fastest men in the world for nearly a decade. He equaled and...
LLearie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt., was a West Indian cricket legend, barrister, author, broadcast journalist, and political activist. He served as Trinidad’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
