John Thompson
The world of collegiate basketball witnessed history on this day in 1984 after the Georgetown Hoyas men’s team vanquished the Houston Cougars in the NCAA basketball championship game. The win made Hoyas coach John Thompson the first Black coach to win a major college basketball title. Georgetown University’s hire of Thompson, a former Boston Celtics […]
African American tech executive John Thompson has been appointed the new chairman of Microsoft Corporation, replacing chairman and co-founder Bill Gates. Thompson is the former CEO of Symantec Corporation and hopes to bring Microsoft into better competition with Apple and Google. He was the first and only African American leader of a major technology company […]
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