Maurice Stokes entered the National Basketball Association 70 years ago, in 1955, when the relatively few Black players were ...

Black History Month this February includes several milestone anniversaries of major developments in the history of the civil ...

Had St. Francis University basketball icon Maurice Stokes lived a long, healthy life, as opposed to one cut tragically short, he likely would have been an important person in Chuck Cooper III’s ...

The Enduring Impact of Maurice Stokes. Jay Twyman, Jack Twyman’s son, will also participate in this event. The book is Stokes’ story of his rise to fame and the widely unknown legacy that he ...

LORETTO, Pa. – Maurice Stokes entered the National Basketball Association 70 years ago, in 1955, when the relatively few Black players were mostly used in supporting roles. They defended ...

St. Francis University recently and rightly spent a week remembering Maurice Stokes, the basketball player who helped put the school from tiny Loretto on the map by leading the 1953-54 and 1954-55 ...