Tennis star Arthur Ashe achieved many firsts as a Black athlete. In the months leading up to his death, he thrust AIDS ...

There Arthur goes, swinging freely ... In 1992, around the time Ashe publicly announced he had contracted AIDS, he commenced work with biographer Arnold Rampersad on what would prove a posthumous ...

Never limiting himself to one title, Arthur Ashe was an author, activist, worldwide civil rights advocate, as well as a ...

It’s a bronze sculpture of Arthur Ashe, which was erected, after much discussion, rancor and controversy, in 1996, three years after his death from AIDS. It features Ashe, a Richmond native ...

That’s a quote from Arthur Ashe, the only black man ever to win the ... Ashe was a civil rights activist and an advocate for Aids and HIV research until complications from the virus took his ...

Yesterday, after I wrote my column, I had a memory of long ago. Arthur Ashe was dying of AIDS. This was in the early 1990s. And he told an interviewer that being black was harder than having AIDS.

"I'm honored to receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award ... working with the UN agency to help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa through education and to promote vocational training initiatives ...