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Black History Month
Sports
Debi Thomas: the first black athlete to win a medal in the Winter Olympics
Figure skater earned bronze in 1988
Culture
Wake up! It’s the 30th anniversary of Spike Lee’s ‘School Daze’
In this #BlackLivesMatter era, the ’80s film is still very relevant
Sports
Richard Ewell: the first black skater to win a national title in singles and pairs
Famed coach Mabel Fairbanks helped launch another career
Sports
Atoy Wilson: the first black skater to win a national title
His first coach was Mabel Fairbanks
HBCU
Doug Williams among HBCU legends in NFL Network documentary Friday night
‘Breaking Ground: A Story of HBCU Football and the NFL’ takes in-depth look at the legacy of 4 great players
Sports
Mabel Fairbanks: The first African-American in the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame
She made her mark as a coach
Culture
Few remember the Orangeburg Massacre, which happened 50 years ago on Feb. 8, 1968
It was one of the first deadly confrontations on a college campus
Sports
Seba Johnson: the first black woman to ski at the Olympics
She competed at age 14 to become the youngest Alpine racer in Olympic history
HBCU
At Hampton, Black History Month means celebrating the culture all month long
State of the Black series will discuss black women, black men, the black church and black Greeks