Only one-fourth of the head coaches in the league are Black, which is a sharp contrast to the fact that roughly 64% of WNBA players are Black or African American, according to a 2023 report from The ...

She’s a bold, unapologetic advocate for change beyond the sport — a model for an emerging collective of African American ... Black women such as the legendary C. Vivian Stringer, the first ...

Graves was hired as the first Black coach in Des Moines Schools. Before that, in 1958, six years before the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination, he was hired as the first African American to ...

During Black History Month, News4JAX is celebrating local African American trailblazers who paved ... mayoral candidate is now a leadership coach and author. His book “Striving for Justice ...

"Now that you mention it," McLaurin said, "I've never had a Black head coach in high school ... However, when you have a big representation of African American players that are in your league ...

“Now that you mention it,” McLaurin said, “I’ve never had a Black head coach in high school ... when you have a big representation of African-American players that are in your league ...

February is Black History Month, and the first Tuesday of February is an occasion to celebrate National African American Coaches Day. Kansas State Athletics recognizes all African American coaches who ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Notre Dame football coach Marcus ... at historically Black universities Grambling State and North Carolina A&T, said about the once-rare sight of an African American playing ...

"Today's Black coach is the '70's Black quarterback," Rod Broadway, who coached at historically Black universities Grambling State and North Carolina A&T, said about the once-rare sight of an ...

When Freeman faces off Monday in Atlanta against the school where he once was a standout linebacker, he’ll become the first Black man ... see me as an African American head coach,” Freeman ...