After months of training, our HBCUs are being well represented in the 2016 Rio Games. A Jackson State grad and two-time Olympian Michael Tinsley is looking forward to his first taste of gold in the 400-meter hurdles. On the track, the Hampton star Francena McCorory is chasing gold, again. Coppin State’s Christina Epps is a newcomer to the […]
Olympics
First African American Woman Gold Medalist, Alice Coachman Passes Away
The first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, Alice Coachman Davis, has died in the US at the age of 90. Born in Albany, Georgia, on November 9, 1923, Alice Coachman made history at the 1948 Olympics in London when jumped to a record-breaking height of 5 feet, 6 and 1/8 inches […]