In 1969, the nation was in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. It was just one year after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

William Bernard “Bill” Collins Jr., 93, of Gilmer, Texas, passed away peacefully on August 7, 2025, in Longview, Texas. Born on May 19, 1932, in Branchville, Maryland, Bill was the son of William ...

Bill Collins, who made history as the University of Colorado’s first full-season Black football captain and helped lead the Buffaloes to victory in the 1969 Liberty Bowl, died on Thursday in Dallas ...

Colorado's first Black football captain dead at 76 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Bill Collins, the first-ever African-American captain for the Colorado Buffaloes football program, passed away ...

POCATELLO — When Capt. Bill Collins first walked through the doors of the Pocatello Police Department in 1990, he had no intention of making law enforcement his life’s work. A young man undecided on ...

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders took some time out from his preseason news conference Friday Aug. 8 to honor a Black former Colorado player who made a courageous stand against an all-white ...