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Naomi Osaka , Beats Azarenka For 2nd US Open Title
Tweet Pint it Share Naomi Osaka! At just 22, she has won the US Open for the second time .Osaka, a 22-year-old born in Japan and now based in the United States, arrived for Saturday’s match wearing a mask with the name of Tamir Rice, a Black 12-year-old boy killed by police in Ohio in […]
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Serena Williams Becomes The First Male Or Female To Win 100 Matches In Arthur Ashe Stadium
Tweet Pint it Share Serena Williams becomes the first person to win 100 matches in the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Arthur Ashe was the first Black man to win the men’s singles titles at Wimbledon and US Open and the first Black man ranked No. 1 in the world. This very court, over 20 years ago, told […]
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Serena Williams Becomes The First Male Or Female To Win 100 Matches In Arthur Ashe Stadium
Tweet Pint it Share Serena Williams becomes the first person to win 100 matches in the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Arthur Ashe was the first Black man to win the men’s singles titles at Wimbledon and US Open and the first Black man ranked No. 1 in the world. This very court, over 20 years ago, […]
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Naomi Osaka Pulls Out Of Tennis Tournament Over ‘Continued Genocide Of Black People’
Tweet Pint it Share The world’s highest-paid female athlete, Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Western & Southern Open in New York because there are “much more important matters at hand” than watching her play tennis. Before I am an athlete, I am a black woman. And as a black woman I feel as though there are much […]
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NBA Foundation Created, Pledges $300 Million To Black Growth
Tweet Pint it Share The NBA’s Board of Governors and the National Basketball Players Association have finalized plans to create the first NBA Foundation that will work to spur economic growth in the Black community, announcing Wednesday that the initial contribution will be $300 million over the next decade. Each team will donate $1 […]
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NBA Launches Thank You Vince Campaign
Tweet Pint it Share The NBA has launched a new digital campaign called ThankYouVince, honoring former Toronto Raptors superstar Vince Carter who announced his retirement from the NBA last month. full list of all the downloadable content can be found on the ThankYouVince website. The campaign also includes a timeline of Carter’s career from his entry […]
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Kobe Bryant Named The Final NBA2K Cover Athlete With A Special Mamba Forever Edition
Tweet Pint it Share The former Lakers star Kobe Bryant , nicknamed the Black Mamba, is the third and final athlete to be featured on the cover of the upcoming “NBA2K21” release. The video game series NBA 2K has announced a Mamba Forever Edition for its latest installment. Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others died […]
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NASCAR Drivers Stand With Bubba Wallace
Tweet Pint it Share Prior to the start of Monday’s rain-delayed GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, drivers and crew members offered a unified show of support for Wallace when they pushed his No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet to the front of the grid during pre-race activities. Wallace was inside the car. A face […]
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Vanessa Bryant Urges Congress To Pass A New Helicopter Safety Bill Named For Kobe & Gianna Bryant
Tweet Pint it Share Vanessa Bryant, wife of the late Kobe Bryant, is urging Congress to pass a new helicopter safety bill named for her husband and daughter who were killed in a crash earlier this year. … Her comments come after Democratic lawmakers on Thursday introduced the “Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant Helicopter Safety Act.” The 38-year-old […]
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