In 1988, World Aids Day began with the aim of raising awareness and understanding of a disease that had struck fear in communities around the globe. That same year, US tennis legend Arthur Ashe ...

There Arthur goes, swinging freely ... In 1992, around the time Ashe publicly announced he had contracted AIDS, he commenced work with biographer Arnold Rampersad on what would prove a posthumous ...

Yesterday, after I wrote my column, I had a memory of long ago. Arthur Ashe was dying of AIDS. This was in the early 1990s. And he told an interviewer that being black was harder than having AIDS.

"I'm honored to receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award ... working with the UN agency to help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa through education and to promote vocational training initiatives ...