Angel Allen

Led the league in points, total rebounds, and blocks... of course the M'VP is All-WNBA First Team ✨ @_ajawilson22 // @WNBA

MILESTONE: Napheesa Collier becomes the first player in WNBA history to record 25 points and 10 rebounds in three consecutive playoff games! ✨ #WNBA

The first player to score 1,000 points in a single season. The first to sweep both WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP honors unanimously. Countless records shattered along the way. A'ja Wilson's season wasn't just memorable—it was legendary. ✨💐 #WNBA

Lyfe Jennings delivers a live performance of “Must Be Nice” for its 20th anniversary. via @4shootersonly

At the end of the day… 𝑴'𝑽𝑷 ✨ @_ajawilson22 // @WNBA

The unanimous WNBA MVP with an incredible acceptance speech 👏 @_ajawilson22 | @LVAces

The first player in WNBA AND NBA history to do what she's done this season. In 105 combined years of American professional basketball, she's the only player to do this. ARE Y'ALL PAYING ATTENTION????

I love my black job 🖤

WELL DESERVED 👏 JuJu Watkins is the ESPY award winner for Best Breakthrough Athlete!

and the ESPY for the Best Athlete Women's Sports goes to... 𝙃𝙀𝙍 👑 @_ajawilson22 // @ESPYS

The Rookie & The Vet 🥹 @LVAces | @chicagosky

Nashville was given the Nickname ‘Music City’ by England's Queen Victoria after receiving the Fisk University Jubilee Singers in her court in 1873. The group, made of mostly those formely enslaved, put Nashville on the musical map. —Fisk University opened in Nashville in 1866 as the first American university to offer a liberal arts education to “young men and women irrespective of color.” Five years later the school was in dire financial straits. George L. White, Fisk treasurer and music professor then, created a nine-member choral ensemble of students and took it on tour to earn money for the University. Every one of these students had been enslaved. The group left campus on October 6, 1871. Jubilee Day is celebrated annually on October 6 to commemorate this historic day. The first concerts were in small towns. Surprise, curiosity, and some hostility were the early audience response to these young black singers who did not perform in the traditional “minstrel fashion.” One early concert in Cincinnati brought in $50, which was promptly donated to victims of the notorious 1871 fire in Chicago. When they reached Columbus, the next city on tour, the students were physically and emotionally drained. Mr. White, in a gesture of hope and encouragement, named them “The Jubilee Singers,” a Biblical reference to the year of Jubilee in the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 25. Continued perseverance and beautiful voices began to change attitudes among the predominantly white audiences. Eventually skepticism was replaced by standing ovations and critical praise in reviews. Gradually they earned enough money to cover expenses and send back to Fisk. In 1872 they sang at the World Peace Festival in Boston and at the end of the year President Ulysses S. Grant invited them to perform at the White House. In 1873 the group grew to eleven members and toured Europe for the first time. Funds raised that year were used to construct the school’s first permanent building, Jubilee Hall. Today Jubilee Hall, designated a National Historic Landmark by the US Department of Interior in 1975, is one of the oldest structures on campus. The beautiful Victorian Gothic building houses a floor-to-ceiling portrait of the original Jubilee Singers, commissioned by Queen Victoria during the 1873 tour as a gift from England to Fisk. 🖋️if you love our content, please consider supporting our page on AfricanArchives.Support (follow the ko-fi page too for weekly posts roundup)

Saturday plans ✅ 📺 WNBA doubleheader | 1 ET on @ABCNetwork

Candace Parker, President of Adidas Basketball.

Candace Parker Was Unstoppable At Tennessee! One Of The Best To Ever Do It!!

No. 23 is going up to the Target Center rafters forever. 8.24

BREAKING: The Minnesota Lynx will retire Maya Moore’s jersey

WESTERN CAROLINA WINS IN SOUTH BEND 😲 The Catamounts put up an impressive performance on the road to top Notre Dame ❗️

Couldn’t be more excited Coach! Let’s go Eagles! 🦅🦅

Okay, Coach Angel!!! 💯🏀👀 @A_hooper20 #alwaysbuilding