A recent biography of the complicated tennis legend underlines the sport’s persistent challenges with race, class, and celebrity. Ad Policy American tennis star Althea Gibson hits a return shot ...

As in the new book “Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson” by Sally H. Jacobs, tennis, like life, moves quickly. No one knew the significance of that day in 1941.

Althea Gibson broke color barriers in professional tennis and golf and went on to become the No. 1 tennis player in the world. Her athletic career is explored in the new book, "The Life of Tennis ...

Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite Althea Brown prepares to cook up a pumpkin curry in her Aurora home. Dec. 13, 2023. “I was always in the kitchen, I think from seven or eight,” said Brown during a ...

Angela Buxton, Half of an Outcast Duo in Tennis History, Dies at 85. She was Jewish, and the great Althea Gibson was Black, and in the segregated world of 1950s tennis they forged a remarkable ...

Tennis legend Althea Gibson participates in the third annual Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills Stadium in New York City on August 24, 1974.

Five women will feature on the back face of quarters to be minted for 2025. The list includes famed journalist Ida B. Wells and trailblazing tennis and golf star Althea Gibson. The 2025 coins will ...

In 1950, Althea Gibson becomes the first black player to compete in the U.S. Open. Gibson wins her first round match, defeating Barbara Knapp of Britain 6-2, 6-2 at Forest Hills in New York.

Books & the Arts / A recent biography of the complicated tennis legend underlines the sport’s persistent challenges with race, class, and celebrity. Alisa Solomon Tennis fans streaming into ...