He became the first and only Black man to win a Wimbledon singles title by outsmarting Jimmy Connors in the final.

Unfortunately there are some barriers to entry. Those that don’t belong to a country club don’t have anywhere to play indoors ...

Roscoe Tanner told ESPN about the advice Arthur Ashe gave him the same year Ashe went on to win -- and it didn't work.

Oscar Robertson received the ESPN Arthur Ashe Award for Courage due to efforts to establish free agency for NBA players.

This Wimbledon marks the 50th anniversary of one of the great grudge matches of all time, Arthur Ashe's finals victory over ...

Arthur Ashe’s historic victory at the U.S. Open was one of a number of milestones in 1968 African American history. Here are a few other key events in black history that took place during the ...

My impression of this is that the project ran out of funding. It looks like half of it was completed and then we gave up,” ...

And Arthur Ashe was much more than a tennis player. Born in segregated Richmond, Virginia, he was the first Black man to win the U.S. Open, in 1968, ...

From rural reservations to shebeens or speakeasies (bars) - wherever black people gathered, they were talking about Ashe's ...

Arthur Ashe hits a slice serve with unerring accuracy, the ball arcing ever wider off the court. Jimmy Connors, his heavily favored opponent and the defending champion, gets just enough of his ...

A special tennis event will take place at Richmond's Byrd Park on Thursday to honor tennis legend Arthur Ashe on what would ...