Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. was born on April 16, 1947, in Harlem, New York, the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician.
If the NFL or MLB do not work out for Johnny Manziel, he can always try basketball. Two days before the 2014 NBA draft, the Harlem Globetrotters announce Tuesday they have “drafted” the former Heisman Trophy winner.
This is the greatest basketball team you have never heard of, a team so dominant that in one season it won 112 games and lost only seven. It was a team that won championships despite never being officially accepted professionally or socially.
Harlem Park to Park kicks off its 5th annual Harlem Restaurant and Retail Week Spring promotion on Friday, February 15th, 2014!
Trend setters and innovators of the game of basketball for decades, the iconic Harlem Globetrotters have added another in a long line of amazing feats, as Globetrotters rookie Thunder Law today smashed the official Guinness World Records® record for the longest basketball shot – connecting from 109 feet 9 inches, besting the old mark of…
Robert L. Douglas, November 4, 1882 – July 16, 1979, was the founder of the New York Renaissance “Rens” basketball team in Harlem, NY. Nicknamed the “Father of Black Professional Basketball.”
By Mark Johnson There is a whole history most NBA fans are unaware of. My father was able to share with me the stories of what it was like to be a professional black basketball player in the early days of the NBA, everything from the referees turning a blind eye, to hard fouls, to the long-time kinships black…
The Black Fives exhibition (on view at the New-York Historical Society March 14 — July 20, 2014) will explore the pioneering history of the African American basketball teams that existed in New York City and elsewhere from the early 1900s through 1950, the year the National Basketball Association became racially integrated.
In today’s fast-paced business world, animation isn’t just about cartoons and funny characters anymore.
A vacation home in Europe can offer the perfect escape from reality – whether it is for a week away with the family, an extended stay through the holidays, or simply to take in new cultures and experiences.
Earlier this year, New York claimed a tremendous sporting accolade for the second year in a row – BCW ranked the city as the world’s ‘sporting capital,’ beating London, England to the punch.
It’s often quoted that the world’s billionaires have more wealth than the rest of the world combined.
SBNation reports that a ignorant photo of soccer star Antoine Griezmann in not just blackface, but makeup covering his entire body.
Harlem State Assemblyman Keith L.T.Wright proclamation at the Rucker Professionals Hall of Fame that city land around Rucker Park is now known as Rucker Park Square in attendance Bob McCollough Jr.