Author Evan Weiner joins the library for a virtual presentation on "Black History Month - Athletes"

African-American athletes have made their mark on sports globally since the 1936 Berlin Olympics and Jesse Owens's performance against the backdrop of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Many African-American athletes have more than just on-field accomplishments such as Jackie Robinson, Elgin Baylor, 22 American Football League All-Stars in 1965, Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Curt Flood and many others who took principled stands and helped change society.

About The Speaker:

Evan Weiner

Evan is a speaker, author, with a radio and TV background. He has about 25 topics and has spoken globally. In 2007, the Department of State sent him to talk to foreign nationals at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas to speak about the politics of sports business in America. Evan Weiner started his journalism career at the age of 15 by hosting a Spring Valley High School talk show on WRKL Radio, Mount Ivy, N.Y. in 1971. He also, at the same time, was a “correspondent” covering high school sports for the Rockland Journal News, Nyack, N.Y. at the same time. By 1978, he was covering news for WGRC Radio and won two Associated Press Awards in 1978 and 1979. In the 1980s, he started his long association with Westwood One Radio. Evan was a contributing columnist for New York Newsday (2001-05); AM-New York, the New York Press, the Bergen (New Jersey) Record, the Philadelphia Metro, Washington Examiner, Orlando Sentinel, Rhode Island’s Sports Journal, and for The Chicago Tribune’s Spanish Hoy! newspapers in N.Y., Chicago and LA between 2002. He did a daily commentary called “The Business of Sports” for Westwood One Radio between 1999 and 2006. Evan was the New York Sun’s Business of Sport columnist between 2005 and the paper’s demise in 2008 and did interviews for John Madden’s Radio programs between 1988 and 2003.