Sally Jacobs

Biographer Sally Jacobs joins us to discuss the life of tennis champion and groundbreaking athlete Althea Gibson. 

Today, we discuss Althea Gibson's career switch to golf, her relationship with the Civil Rights Movement, and her final years.

Our February Althea Gibson Full Bio continues with the story of how she broke the tennis color line.

We're spending the week talking to Sally Jacobs, author of Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson. Today, we discuss Gibson's tennis training and her college years.

We kick off our February Full Bio on tennis icon Althea Gibson.

Sally Jacobs discusses the life and influence of Barack Obama Sr., father of President Obama. He was a brilliant economist, a polygamist, an alcoholic, and an ardent African nationalist unafraid to speak out. The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father  illuminates Obama Sr.’s complicated life, from his upbringing in Kenya to his time at Harvard and Hawaii, and shows him as a man motivated by the dream of a better world.