Creative Control and Abramorama are collaborating for the North American distribution of The First to Do It, a documentary about Earl Lloyd, the first African-American to play in the NBA.

Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to “Sweetwater,” a recently completed feature about Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, the first African American to land an NBA ...

the first African American basketball player at Duke. A select group — including Emmy-nominated producer and editor Funmi Ogunro and Martin Paul Smith, executive producer and an assistant ...

Amid burning crosses and waving Confederate flags and all the bile and hate of the 1960s, Wallace became the Southeastern Conference's first prominent African American basketball player.