In the fast-changing world of sports marketing, few names embody innovation, representation, and grit like Peter Iwuh. At a time when the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) movement is transforming the economics of college athletics, Iwuh has emerged as a…
Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, fugitive since 1979, and the first woman placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, has died at 78. Cuba’s Foreign…
Dr. Quintard Taylor, the distinguished historian of African American history and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Taylor built a towering academic legacy documenting Black life across the United States, especially in the American West.…
Stefon Diggs was born on November 29, 1993, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Raised in a tight-knit family, Diggs assumed responsibility early after his father’s passing in 2008, helping to guide his younger brothers. Football became both an outlet and a proving…
James E. Ferguson II, a towering figure in the civil rights legal movement who spent more than five decades dismantling racial injustice in schools and courtrooms, died on July 21 in Charlotte, N.C. He was 82. His son, James Ferguson…
