PREMIUM limited edition collection of vintage inspired shoes that include intentionally well-worn leather, signature patches, contrast stitch detailing, flexed uppers, scuffed rubber, weathered laces, and special linings. Very limited!
A 2-Year Old Basketball Dribbler!
WE STILL HAVE SOME! Above, the Black Fives retro Philadelphia Panthers Vandal High Leather LE by Nike (314878-101). Features detailed team logo pattern on rear upper. To check this out please CLICK HERE. These is sick but we don't have many left!!
ALSO STILL IN! Above, the Black Fives retro Philadelphia Panthers Dunk High Premium by Nike (314877-211). Gold-leaf trophy graphic on rear upper and laser-etched Panthers logo detail on front upper. To check it out, please CLICK HERE. This is a beautiful shoe.
Music
Ragtime.
Straight ahead jazz.
Blues.
Hip hop.
Classical.
All of the above to a hip hop beat.
Anything else that works at the time.
Black Fives Era pioneers.
Cassius Clay.
Malcolm X.
Gandhi.
Cumberland Posey.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Robeson.
Cornel West.
Andrew Carnegie.
Edwin B. Henderson.
Bob Douglas.
Will Madden.
Kids everywhere including those in all of us.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Mechanical Engineering
1982 to 1984
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Graduated: 1982
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Civil Engineering
Minor: Economics
Clubs: Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society / National Society of Black Engineers
Greek:
Tau Beta Pi
Black Fives (BlackFives.com) is for sneaker buffs, basketball fans, personal improvement seekers, sports enthusiasts, vintage lovers, black culture aficionados, culture respecters, and history makers.
Black Fives combines insights about pre-NBA African American basketball history with popular elements of black culture to produce meaningful motivation, inspiration, and enlightenment you can use today.
That's why our slogan is ?Make History Now!"
Black Fives is dedicated to researching, preserving, teaching, and promoting the early history of African American participation in basketball.
This page features information, news, dialog, and vintage products relating to the many all-black teams that played from the early 1900s through the late 1940s, prior to the racial integration of professional basketball, a period known as the Black Fives Era.
Just after basketball was invented in 1891, teams were called "fives" in reference to their five starting players. Basketball, like American society, was racially segregated. Teams made up entirely of black players were known as colored quints, colored fives, Negro fives, or black fives.
The sport remained segregated from 1891 until the racial integration of professional basketball leagues such as the National Basketball League (NBL) and the National Basketball Association beginning in the late 1940s.
The period in between became known as the Black Fives Era as dozens of amateur, semi-pro, and professional all-black teams- sponsored by or affiliated with churches, businesses, social clubs, colleges, and "Colored" YMCAs emerged, flourished, and matured, decades before the NBA was even born.
The rules are different today, and so is society, but the faces haven't changed. This is our history!
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT: Black Fives is really just a vehicle for teaching and inspiring people about the lessons of the Black Fives Era and how we can learn and grow from them today to the best we can possibly be. There are lessons and personal growth opportunities in every facet of life, so why not tie it all together with special ingredients: basketball, history, African American culture, fashion, music ...
The game is different and so is society, but the faces haven't changed.
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wow claude... great updates to your blackfives blog this week!! i mean, you're getting mad love from nike, and converse, and house of hoops, and SLAM... AND you were chiilin on a hollywood set. keep it up man. looking forward to makin it happen!!
I commend you for bringing this rich history to public fora. The beauty of this work is that it gives written voice to those who previously had no voice. Be well...Dr_S
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