Each February, America celebrates Black History Month. We remember, reflect, debate and strategize about our past, present and future. Appropriately, we focus on centuries of victories, struggles, and unpredictable triumphs, like the rise, campaign and election of President Barack H. Obama, “Our 44.” Twice! (to be completely honest, most of us were confident that the majority of voters would elect President Obama to a second term).

We especially salute our extraordinary NBA Founders and civl rights leaders like the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Constance Baker Motley, Judge Nathaniel A. Jones, NBA Co-Founder Gertrude Rush, Past President Fred Gray, Ben Crump, Willie Gary, Deans Charles Hamilton Houston, Patricia Roberts Harris and Wiley A. Branton, who courageously represented plaintiffs like the Late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Heman Sweatt, The Little Rock 9, Mrs. Rosa Parks, and the Freedom Bus Riders in historic civil rights cases like Brown v. Board of Education. In doing so, NBA lawyers successfully dismantled the most pernicious de jure and de facto discrimination. For this, we are eternally and immeasurably grateful and proud...READ MORE