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The New-York Historical Society's exhibit “The Black Fives” highlights early black basketball stars. (Photos.)
CMPRadio.net - Did you know?! February 13, 1923 - The first black professional basketball team, "The Renaissance," was organized. The New York Rens were the first all-black fully professional African-American owned basketball
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