As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman
I wanted to take a moment and share a little bit about the International Hall of fame and our mission. As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it move
you burned me. with people in east palestine, ohio, angry and afraid after the toxic train derailment, donald trump offers them trump brand water and cultural grievance. pete buttigieg called on the former president to reverse the safety regulations put in place by his administration. secretary buttigieg will join me in a moment. also, new evidence the right knew it was all a lie. as arizona s former attorney general buried a record refuting election fraud claims. and garrison hayes is here. you know him from his tiblth series, forgotten black history. tonight, he is bringing us some kick ass black history. we begin the reidout tonight with east palestine, ohio, where we heard directly from federal officials today about what caused the toxic train derailment there three weeks ago. the chair of the national transportation safety board did not hold back. but i can tell you this much. this was 100% preventable. we call things accidents. there is no accident. the ntsb
that s it. [ applause ] 2-2. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and forth between white baselines in all-white country clubs. but a new young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced, and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially in an african american context. there does still persist in the world myths about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletics. some people think we are all brawn and no brains. and i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketb
All happened. 15th and pierce street, lynchburg dr. Johnson set up a Junior Development. In 1951 to train the best and brightest kids, mostly africanamericans in the sport of tennis. He would mentor them work on strategy and tactics and have kids come and stay for the summer. About a dozen kids per year and this is the color line in the sport of tennis was broken back in 1950 when Althea Gibson first Junior Development Program Player played the us and thats what started this entire quickly behind. Althea arthur ashe came in 1953 and spent seven summers under dr. Tutelage and. The court behind you is where it all took place. This is where they spent hours and hours and hours of time honing their considerable skills and working on their disposition and talent. Dr. Was my grandfather. He was a Lincoln University graduate, a football player, student athlete, and ended up going to medical school at Meharry Medical School in nashville, tennessee. He did his residency texas prairie view, texa