The NBA has recently celebrated and acknowledged the 75th anniversary of the first three Black players to take the court for the league. According to Andscape, during the 1950-51 basketball season ...

The impact of Black ball players' fight for higher compensation and labor protections in the ‘70s is felt today.

Some basketball fans may think of the 1970s as the so-called dark ages of the NBA. But historian Theresa Runstedtler tells The Sunday Magazine the decade is pivotal for the sport and too often ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are Cineflix are developing a docuseries about pioneering Black NBA basketball players including Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd and Nat Clifton.

DURHAM, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — It’s impossible to think of March Madness without the Duke Blue Devils, who are one of the blue bloods of college basketball. The university’s rich history in… ...

Harry Bucky Lew, a Massachusetts native who is known as the first Black professional basketball player in the United States, was honored Thursday night.

A high school student in Orange County, California, was disciplined after making “inappropriate and inflammatory racist comments” toward a Black basketball player during a game last week, the ...

Students making monkey noises taunted Black basketball players at a high school game in New York earlier this week, and parents and school leaders are demanding more aggressive action against ...

A black high school basketball player found a drawing of a stick figure with a noose and his name in West Virginia.