Olympian Cullen Jones  trying to get more Blacks to move past fear and learn to swim

Companies include Florida’s Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club

BY GEORGE E. CURRY
NNPA SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Sheila Johnson’s accomplishments are breathtaking. She is president and managing partner of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics.

Lee Wesley Gibson, 100, stands next to a 1937 Pullman dormitory/club car at the Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park last month.

Lee Wesley Gibson, the oldest surviving Pullman porter, looks back

BY ANN M. SIMMONS
LOS ANGELES TIMES/MCT

When Lee Wesley Gibson began his new job as a coach attendant with Union Pacific Railroad in 1936, the country was in the grips of the Great Depression.

New stamps honor Andrew ‘Rube’ Foster and pioneer players

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Andrew "Rube" Foster is considered by historians to be one of the best African-American pitchers of the 1900s. Some would argue that he was the best. However, he isn’t usually recognized for his pitching arm but for his management skills.

Infamous water gun fight, Pajamas Night round out last day of cruise

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tom Joyner Foundation’s "Fantastic Voyage 2010’’ sailed from Miami on May 16. Florida Courier columnist Lisa Rogers-Cherry, photographer Delroy Cole and freelance journalist Keisha Pickett represented the Courier on the weeklong Caribbean ocean cruise. This is the seventh and final entry in a series of stories and reviews of the "party with a purpose.’’

BY KEISHA PICKETT
FLORIDA COURIER

It’s been a long week, but it feels like I could do it for another seven days if I had the chance. I was excited about our beach day at CocoCay, Bahamas. It was an island there just for us to act up on, and we did just that.

BY JACKIE JONES
BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM

Nearly every African-American knows someone with high blood pressure who is on medication. What a lot of people don’t know, however, is that everyone with hypertension isn’t automatically sentenced to a lifetime of pill-popping.

Here are substantial excerpts of one of Dr. King’s best regular Sunday sermons, "The Drum Major Instinct,’’ at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he was co-pastor with his father "Daddy King." This sermon was preached on Feb. 4, 1968, exactly two months before his violent death. He essentially preaches his own eulogy in its last section.

Felicia Wintons Taylor operated Black business for 15 years