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Professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He retired in 1980.Ashe is believed to have acquired HIV from a blood transfusion he received during heart bypass surgery in 1983. He publicly announced his illness in April 1992, and began working to educate others about HIV and AIDS. He founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health before his death from AIDS-related pneumonia at the age of 49 on February 6, 1993. On June 20, 1993, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by United States President Bill Clinton.

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The Dream Detroit Skating Academy, founded by figure skaters Angela Blocker-Loyd and Candice Tamakloe, has recently been launched as the first and only Black-owned figure skating academy in the city of Detroit. What's more, it is also currently the only Black-owned figure skating club in the entire state of Michigan.

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‘They Deserve to be In the Spotlight’: Viral Video Shows All-Black Male High School Celebrate All Its Students Going to College and $9.2M In Scholarships

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Drew Charter School golf team made history as the first all-Black golf team and first Atlanta Public School to win a golf state championship in Georgia.