Black Speed Skater Inspires D.C. Kids to Compete Four years ago, Olympic speed skater Shani Davis said he was lonely being the only black man on a traditionally white team.

We know who we’ll be rooting for at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Erin Jackson just made history as the first African-American woman to make the U.S.A.’s long-track speed skating team — and if ...

The speed skater, 29, won gold Sunday in the women's 500m with a time of 37.04, becoming the first Black woman to win an individual medal in the event, according to Team USA.

Rarely does a short-track speed skating competition look like this. Black, white and Asian children donned speed skating suits and circled the ice early Saturday morning at Fort DuPont Ice Arena ...

Jackson’s athletic career started off with inline skating and roller derby. By the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, she qualified for the 500m speed skating event as the first Black woman to ...

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U.S. speed skater Erin Jackson wins gold and makes history 02:25. Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics.A gold one, at that. Jackson won ...

Jackson, 29, joins fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athlete to win an Olympic medal in speed skating. The Florida native slipped at the U.S. trials and was in jeopardy of losing her ...

Actor Jack Black had a role in 2020's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, and he's coming back in Pro Skater 3 + 4 to reprise that ...

At the 2018 PyeongChang Games, Maame Biney‘s set to take her place in history next to the aforementioned greats as the first black woman to be on the U.S. Olympic speed skating team. “I’m ...

Erin Jackson, 29, became the first Black woman to earn a gold medal in speed skating for the United States on Sunday. Jackson claims the prestigious honor for her performance in the women’s 500 ...

Erin Jackson was the first Black woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics when she captured the 500 meters at Beijing Games in 2022. Olympic champion speedskater Erin Jackson leads the way ...