“The USTA and the US Open are incredibly proud and humbled to be able to celebrate Althea Gibson—a universal inspiration and ...

Tickets for all three weeks of the 2025 US Open go on sale to the general public May 30 as the USTA today proudly unveils its ...

When Althea Gibson was born in the South Carolina town of Silver in 1927, her birth certificate made no sense whatsoever. Chalk it up to an overexcited family member or an exhausted midwife ...

Hulton Deutsch//Getty Images A portrait of Gibson in 1957. Some in the Black press angled to get a read on Althea’s state of mind as she stood on the brink of possible world triumph, but few ...

With this latest project, the Williams sisters and Isha Price shine a spotlight on the life-changing potential of sport ...

Picture taken on July 5, 1958 at Wimbledon showing American tennis player Althea Gibson after winning the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships. (Photo by - / INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS / AFP) / France ...

1. Althea Gibson’s first sport was ping-pong. Born on August 25, 1927, in South Carolina to parents who worked as sharecroppers, Gibson was 3 when her family migrated to Harlem in New York City.

Also, why you will continue to swelter on the subway platform. By James Barron Althea Gibson was the first Black player to win Wimbledon. Soon, the block in Harlem where she grew up will bear her ...

Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of all time and a groundbreaking woman in not one but two sports. Gibson was best known for her tennis career, as she was the first African American ...