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William G. Pomeroy Foundation Provides Grant To While We Are Still Here To Celebrate Harlem’s History

From Ethel Waters and Althea Gibson to Marcus Garvey and Langston Hughes, Harlem’s extraordinary historic legacy. Continue reading

Harlem’s Althea Gibson First Black Woman To Win A Championship At Wimbledon

Althea Gibson, August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003, was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first black athlete of either gender to cross the color line of international tennis.Continue reading

City Parks Is Looking For The Next Althea Gibson At The Lacoste Tennis Academy Tryouts

Harlem has tons of talent, ask Althea Gibson, who was the first black woman to win a Championship at Wimbledon. Continue reading

Conversations In Black Freedom Studies: Black Athletes And The Freedom Struggle

From Muhammad Ali to the Williams sisters, the symbolic politics of black athletes have galvanized the black revolt for social justice.Continue reading

Althea Gibson at the West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills NY ca 1950 Credit Corbis

Join The Free Lacoste Pro Tennis Clinic In Central Park

In a Harlem community that produced Althea-Gibson, you know we love tennis. That's why its great that you and the family can cap off the summer and celebrate the 2016 US Open with CityParks Tennis and Lacoste! Continue reading

Althea Gibson at the West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills NY ca 1950 Credit Corbis

Join Reel Sisters Women’s History Month Screening Of ALTHEA

Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series will present a screening of ALTHEA, a documentary on Harlem's Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis player to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Continue reading

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Wharton Sports Business Presents Harlem’s “Althea” (video)

Sounds like a great documentary about the trailblazing athlete 1st black tennis sensation and Harlemite Althea Gibson.Continue reading

Mayor Dinkins Remembers Harlem’s Cosmopolitan Tennis Club (video)

Harlem fave and NYC Mayor David Dinkins recalls Harlem's Cosmopolitan Tennis Club the nurturing grounds for Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, the Katrina Adams CEO and President of the United State Tennis Association (USTA) and more.Continue reading

Harlem Tennis & Birthday Salute To Mayor Dinkins

Mayor Dinkins is excited about sharing the program kick-off birthday celebration with friends and families on July 11th.Continue reading

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