NEW YORK -- A street in Harlem was renamed Thursday in honor of Hall of Fame tennis player Althea Gibson. West 143rd Street between Adam Clayton Powell and Malcom X boulevards is now Althea Gibson ...

The late Robert “Bullet Bob” Hayes, two-time Olympic gold medal and National Football League Hall of Fame member, usually rises to the top of the list, when Florida A&M University alumni ...

LEAD: Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe, both winners of United States and Wimbledon singles championships, headed the first group induction in the Eastern Tennis Association Hall of Fame last night ...

Althea Gibson’s legend deserves to be one of our biggest Two new biographies capture the athletic greatness and the funny, exuberant personality of the undersung pioneering tennis champion ...

Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971 and the Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.

Steve Adubato and his Co-Host, Jacqui Tricarico, are joined by Henry Hascup, President & Boxing Historian at the NJ Boxing Hall of Fame, to remember heavyweight champion, James J. Braddock.

As Women’s History Month closes, we celebrate Althea Gibson, the Black American two-sport athlete whose legacy is still felt 20 years after her death.

For decades, Althea Gibson’s fame was inescapable. The first Black woman to win Wimbledon and the first to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, among numerous other achievements, the ...

The Tallahassee City Commission will be voting Wednesday to rename two streets — one of which will be in honor of a local College Football Hall of Famer — and approve a street dedication in ...

Gibson was inducted into the 1971 class of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Althea Gibson, Wimbledon women’s champion, on the cover of El Gráfico for August 29, 1958. Edition 2033.

It’s time to revive the spirit of Althea Gibson, who died in 2005, and bring her home to FAMU.