Black History - (Tag)

Memorial Day Rewind: The Forgotten Hero of WWII By Bruce Wigo. The participation of Americans of African descent in the U.S. military has a long and distinguished history, dating to the Revolutionary War.  During World War II, more than one million African Americans served in the armed forces of the...

By Bruce Wigo. Who was Chris Silva? For starters, he was was an All-American sprinter for UCLA (1982-1984). He was the first African American to qualify for a U.S. Olympic swimming team, in 1984, the first to hold a U.S. record, as a member of a 400-meter freestyle relay team, and he the first to re...

By Bruce Wigo. Black Swimming History in the race pool did not begin with Simone Manuel's gold medal in Rio. Nor did it begin with Cullen Jones' gold medal in Beijing, Maritza McClendon's Olympic silver medal in Athens, Anthony Ervin's gold in Sydney, Sabir Muhammad's American records in the 1990s o...

Black History Month: Alick Wickham Opened Doors in Open-Water Swimming By Alice Dearing & Ned Denison At the start of Black History Month (observed in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom), we celebrate the role that black swimmers played in the advancement of the art, pastime a...