Arthur’s influence on tennis didn’t fade after he left the sport. “He brought a level of conscience to the game, whether he was speaking on South Africa or inner-city minorities or exclusionary policies anyplace. “He was a voice for all the minorities, and that goes for women, too,” she said. story about gay black men living as straight men in the August 3, 2003. Ashe helped create inner-city tennis programs for youths in Newark, Detroit, Atlanta, Kansas City and Indianapolis, according to the New York Times.Īt the time of his death, women’s tennis great Pam Shriver told The Times that his influence in life was as great as his prowess on the tennis court. of Sex and the City or what makes Nixon an effective and eclectic actress. Though his diagnosis did not stop his activism. In other words, she wasn’t your ordinary trash and had a shot at becoming a famous pornstar. Her achievements in porn include contracts with Mile High Media, Hustler, and Twistys.
The tennis legend believed he contracted HIV through a blood transfusion in 1983 he was diagnosed in 1988 after he entered New York Hospital for emergency brain surgery. 10 Kasey Chase (Desire Cholewa) Kasey or Jesse Brooks is another of many retired pornstars that has overdosed and died. Ashe was tennis’s first black millionaire.
Bush administration’s treatment of Haitain refugees) He is also the only Black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. (He was arrested for protesting the George H.W. Unlike today’s Black athletes, Ashe was a socially-conscience tennis legend who used his celebrity to speak out against injustice.