Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

The 15th class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame will be inducted Friday night and headlined by Ricky Rudd and Carl Edwards, drivers ...

One of the best players in Chicago Bulls history has passed away following a battle with cancer. He was 81 years old. Bob Love, a three-time NBA All-Star, played for the Bulls from 1968-76.

Love joined the Bulls during the 1968-69 season and quickly ... nods during his tenure. The post Chicago Bulls Legend Has Tragically Passed Away After A Long Battle With Cancer originally ...

Carl Edwards and Ricky Rudd had very little overlap in their respective NASCAR careers. Edwards only entered the elite Cup ...

Lyndon B. Johnson deploys Army after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination In response to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, riots and unrest in ...

He had had a 10-year-long battle with non-Hoghkin lymphoma, and his wife of 53 years, Gail, and son Aram were by his side at the time of death. Born in Chicago in 1942, Goldberg began his career ...

Kennedy urges compromise in Vietnam CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 1968 (UPI) --In his strongest attack ... of the imperial palace today and won the 25-day battle for Hue.Grimy U.S. marines held back and ...

"And I was supposed to leave Monday and go to Chicago and be fitted for clothing ... and wounded his own wife in a domestic dispute in 1968. "What did you say to him after the incident?" ...

The Astrodome was new then. “The Eighth Wonder of the World” they called it. It was an indoor stadium built in a city that ...

One imagines that Falstaff would have made this film much as Welles has, with lots of lusty wenches, flagons of ale, a tavern big enough for a battalion, a castle romantically vast, and a really ...

1969: Controversial University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon — who inspired a more than two-week sit-in by ...