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In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here are some of the best HBCU athletes to make it in the prosWe’ve already highlighted some of the famous Black celebrities who are HBCU alumni, but what about the athletes?...

Coco Gauff is proof that tennis is wack without Black womenThey used to not want Althea Gibson’s “kind” around. Now we don’t know where tennis would be without them. That’s how you ace an opportunity....

Althea Gibson and Robert Lipsyte's Forgotten BookmarkMy friend Michael Popek owns a used bookstore and runs a site called Forgotten Bookmarks, devoted to the things he finds in old books. The site did so well Michael published a book of the same name. (Check out this Q&A we did in 2011 and this profile of Michael by Shannon Firth.)...