From baseball to hockey, basketball, football and track, below are the greatest Black athletes of all time.

 

Michael Jordan

 

 

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Kobe Bryant

Lebron James

 

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Muhammad Ali

 

 

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Simone Biles

 

 

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Venus Williams

Serena Williams

 

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Shaquille O’Neal

 

 

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Magic Johnson

 

 

 

Colin Kaepernick

 

 

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Tim Duncan

 

 

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Usain Bolt

 

 

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Gabby Douglas

 

 

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Isiah Thomas

 

 

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Earl Campbell

 

 

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Derek Jeter

 

 

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David Robinson

 

 

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Joe Frazier

 

 

 

Barry Sanders

 

 

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Reggie Jackson

 

 

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Tiger Woods

 

 

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Larry Fitzgerald

 

 

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Ernie Banks

 

 

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Roberto Clemente

 

 

 

Arthur Ashe

 

 

 

Ken Griffey Jr.

 

 

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Bill Russell

 

 

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George Foreman

 

 

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Herschel Walker

 

 

 

Florence Griffith Joyner

 

Michael Johnson

 

 

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Jim Brown

 

 

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Stephen Curry

 

 

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee

 

 

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Wilt Chamberlain

 

 

 

Bo Jackson

 

 

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Sugar Ray Leonard

 

 

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Joe Louis

 

 

 

Wilma Rudolph

 

 

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Gale Sayers

 

 

 

Emmitt Smith

 

 

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Julius Erving

 

 

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

 

 

 

Walter Payton

 

 

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Jerry Rice

 

 

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Hank Aaron

 

 

 

Jesse Owens

 

 

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Willie Mays

 

 

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Jackie Robinson

 

 

 

10 Black Canadian athletes who made history:

 

1890 – George Dixon

First Black Canadian world boxing champion.

 

1912 – John Armstrong Howard

First Black athlete to represent Canada in the 100 and 200-metre sprint at the Olympics Games in Stockholm, Sweden.

 

1932 – Ray Lewis

The first Black Canadian to win an Olympic medal.

 

1934 – Sam Richardson

Wins the gold medal in the long jump and silver medal in the triple jump for Canada at the British Empire games in London, England.

 

1958 – Willie O’Ree

The first Black Canadian to play in the NHL.

 

1960 – Harry Jerome

Competes in three straight summer Olympic Games.  Throughout his career, Harry set seven world records.

 

1990 – Angela James

The first Black woman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.  Angela leads Canadian women’s hockey team to a gold medal at the Women’s World Hockey Championships.  She would lead three more in 1992, 1994, and 1997.

 

1996 – Donovan Bailey

Wins Canada’s first ever gold medal in the men’s 100-metre race the at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

 

2013 – P.K. Subban

First Black NHL player to win the Norris Trophy.

 

2013 – Anthony Bennett

First Black Canadian to be selected first overall by Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2013 NBA draft.

 

2014 – Andrew Wiggins

Becomes the second Black Canadian to be picked number one in the NBA draft, also by Cleveland.

 

 

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