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As James Franklin prepares for the Orange Bowl, the Nittany Lions head coach reflected on how two Black head coaches can impact the future.

Prince was one of six African Americans among 120 Division I-A head-coaching positions ... have a chance to play in the College Football Playoff. Penn State head coach James Franklin makes a call during the first half of the Fiesta Bowl NCAA college ...

Throughout his career, Franklin has developed 107 players who have advanced to the NFL, coached 16 All-Americans ... Franklin is of African-American and Japanese descent. James Franklin and ...

It’s an accomplishment for us as African Americans, especially if you know ... This moment with Franklin and Freeman (no relation) is vital because it can create a future permission structure ...

Would a victory in the Capital One Orange Bowl validate the James Franklin era at Penn State ... that his goal his whole career with the first African-American head coach to win national ...

James Geoffrey Franklin is the Head Coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions college football team. He became Penn State’s head coach on January 11, 2014. With 29 years of coaching experience, he ...

Franklin mentioned in an HBO interview that one of his goals is to be the first African-American football coach to win a college national championship. "I take a lot of pride in it. I think you ...

Either Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman or Penn State's James Franklin will make this ... It’s an accomplishment for us as African Americans, especially if you know anything about history.

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 Historic Places,

Black college football coaches share what it means to see a Black coach contend for the national title for the first time.

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