An Australian Rules Football (AFL) club had to apologize this week after three of its players donned full-body blackface to impersonate Venus and Serena Williams, as well as a Kenyan-born AFL player, Aliir Aliir.
As more and more designers are including are including fuller-figured models on their runways (Cushnie, Christian Siriano, Prabal Gurung and the always inclusive Chromat, to name a few), it’s easy to applaud the fashion world for finally taking notice of the fact that big girls (surprise!) like to be well-dressed, too.
As the Williams sisters prepared to face off at the US Open on Sept. 1, there was much speculation over whether Serena or Venus—seeded 16th and 17th respectively (prior to the match), would take home the win. (It was baby sis Serena this round, proving that motherhood hasn’t slowed her down, after all.)
The tennis gods have done this on purpose for the amusement of tennis fans worldwide. For the 30th time since becoming pros, Venus and Serena Williams will face each other and, in truth, the only winner is tennis.
At the start of the 2018 U.S. Open, Nike debuted a video of Richard Williams coaching his then 9-year-old daughter Serena Williams. The commercial juxtaposes the images of Richard crouched next to a tiny Serena as he says, “This is you in the U.S. Open.” The future icon bounces the ball and breathes before her serve.…
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She may not be the Williams sister most likely to be seen on a magazine cover, but don’t sleep on Venus Williams. At 38, she’s still competing (at Wimbledon, as we speak) and is still ranked 9th in the world in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association.
Serena Williams came back from maternity leave ready to stunt on her “co-workers” at the French Open. Having her rank knocked down to No. 453 in the world just because she took time off to have, love and care for her baby Olympia meant nothing in the grand scheme of things when Williams came back from a deficit to…
Tennis legend Venus Williams just sent us some summer love via Sprint, the latest collection from her athleticwear line EleVen.
An investigation by police in Florida has concluded that no one is to blame for the car accident involving Venus Williams that resulted in one man’s death, and neither the tennis star nor the other driver will be charged in the incident.
If you expected Serena Williams’ wedding reception to be a buttoned-up affair filled with stodgy old millionaires waltzing to a full symphony orchestra playing baroque music, you were wrong.
Whether you like LaVar Ball or hate him, at the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding: His son Lonzo Ball can play. It’s refreshing to see a black man speak so fearlessly and confidently about his son’s abilities, but now it’s time to let his son shine. We predict that Lonzo will definitely be a force in his…
We knew that the winner of the 2017 U.S. Open women’s tourney would be an American, and we knew she would be black. Now we know her name: It’s 24-year-old Sloane Stephens.
The U.S. Open Women’s Singles Semifinals will be a display of American #BlackGirlMagic (word to CaShawn Thompson) when Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens face off in what is likely to be a match for the ages, and we are all very excited because yes, black girls who play tennis come through!
For the first time in U.S. Open history, three black women have advanced to the quarterfinal round—and in this case, they all happen to be American. As of Monday, Venus Williams, 37; Sloane Stephens, 24; and Madison Keys, 22, are all vying for the Tiffany-engraved trophy.
Venus Williams was defeated by Garbine Muguruza in the Wimbledon final. But that didn’t stop Muguruza from praising her opponent.
The last time Venus Williams was in the Wimbledon final was eight years ago, when she faced, and lost to, her younger sister, Serena. At age 37, the tennis champion is looking to win her sixth Wimbledon singles title and defy every critic who has said she didn’t have it in her anymore.
Video footage is turning out to be a real help for African Americans in this country, whose word is rarely taken as truth. And so it goes for tennis star Venus Williams, who, after enduring public shame and sadness over a car accident that ended a man’s life, appears not to have been at fault.
Not only has Compton, Calif., produced Dre, Kendrick, Issa, Venus and Serena, but soon there may be two more luminaries to hail from its notorious, talent-producing streets.
Venus Williams, clearly emotional about a car crash she was involved in that left a 78-year-old dead, wiped away tears during a Wimbledon press conference in England on Monday.
