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Jamaican sprinter Fraser-Pryce launches scholarship 5K fundraiser to honor her longtime pastor

Brave, fearless and all agents of change, athletes will be recognized every week for using their platform for the greater good

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The day Usain Bolt won his first Olympic gold medal

The Jamaican sprinter was just getting started when he took the 100 meters in 2008

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The day Alice Coachman became the first black woman to win Olympic gold

The Albany State student took the high jump at the 1948 Games in London

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The day Jackie Joyner-Kersee was called ‘the greatest athlete who ever lived’

Joyner-Kersee took back-to-back gold medals in the heptathlon at the 1992 Olympics

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Tori Bowie: A letter to athletes 50 years from now

Olympic sprinter says, ‘You have to know what you’re fighting for’

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From all-black clubs to all-stars

A timeline of black women’s participation in basketball, golf, gymnastics and track

The Uplift

Allyson Felix boosts the YMCA and talks about making her fifth Olympic team

America’s best woman in track and field grew up at the Y in Crenshaw

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Alice Coachman: the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal

She took the high jump at the 1948 Olympics in London

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The day Flo Jo took the 1988 Olympic 100-meter sprint by storm

This was the first of three gold medals Griffith Joyner would win

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