Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now in production in Memphis, the feature film "Hoop Street" is about a hot-headed high-school basketball player working to take ...

It’s been 30 years since the seminal documentary “Hoop Dreams” was released. On Saturday, the famed subjects of the film were on the West Side to help present Chicago with an anniversary gift — an ...

If there’s a sport worth obsessing over, it’s basketball. What a beautiful game: shoes squeaking across shiny hardwood floors, the swish of the net when a perfect shot whips through, a contest that ...

In every activist movement since the beginning of recorded history, leaders have had to recruit followers to join their movement. In the 1960’s civil rights movement, this strategy led Dr. Martin ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- With Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaching, hundreds of Inglewood students are learning how basketball played a role in the civil rights leader’s philosophy -- and how ...

Artist and filmmaker Glenn Kaino first heard about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s basketball prowess while he was eating dinner. Kaino is a longtime collaborator of Tommie Smith, the gold medal-winning ...

The Memphis-made film "Hoop Street" will premiere at the Porretta Film Festival in Italy. The screening is part of a "Film Exchange" between Memphis and Porretta Terme, Italy. Craig Brewer's ...

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Now in production in Memphis, the feature film "Hoop Street" is about a hot-headed high-school basketball player working to take his game to the next level — to greater acclaim and to a larger ...