who in 1952 became the first Black American man to represent the U.S. in the Olympic marathon and went on to co-found the New York Road Runners Club. In the late 1960s, when women weren’t ...

The 1948 London Games saw black women come to the fore for the first time in Olympic history. First, sprinter Audrey Patterson became the first black woman to win a medal when she took 200m bronze.

“Disproportionately black women and black men suffer from obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, that’s very prevalent in our community, it was started to bring awareness to ...