(WHTM) – For the first time in the history of college football, an African American head coach will ... the Orange Bowl semifinal game between James Franklin’s Penn State Nittany Lions and ...

James Franklin's Penn State has the Ornagle Bowl ... showing him expressing his desire to become the first African-American coach to win the college football national championship.

It’s an accomplishment for us as African Americans, especially if you know anything about history.” James Franklin and Marcus Freeman represent a compelling generational story of how race ...

Fumi Franklin is of African-American and Japanese descent. James Franklin and Fumi Franklin have two daughters, Shola and Addison. Shola is the elder of the Franklins' two daughters. As of 2024 ...

OSU and OU were on the front lines of hiring black coaches in college football. No Alabama. No Georgia, Florida or Tennessee.

A sprawling cemetery on Chattanooga's Missionary Ridge where Ed Johnson was laid to rest after he was lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge in 1906 has been nominated to the National Register of ...

"The timing of Marcus Freeman and Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a powerful symbol that should be viewed with cautious ...

What was practiced in Pottstown, was policy and custom that excluded and oppressed African Americans more inconspicuously, ...

Freeman, who is bi-racial with Black and South Korean parents, already staked a place as the first such head coach to lead a ...

In college basketball, the scene of an African American coach cutting down the ... in the Orange Bowl — either Penn State's James Franklin or Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman — will have a chance ...