Professional Memberships

• 100 Black Men of Greater Kansas City (co-founder, 1996-2006)
• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
• African American Museum Association (AAMA)
• American First Day Cover Society (AFDCS)
• American Jazz Museum (Kansas City, MO)
• National Association for Black Journalists (NABJ)
• Association for Professional Basketball Research (APBR)
• Association of African American Museums (AAAM)
• Black Archives of Mid-America 
• Black Collectors' Hall of Fame inductee, Washington, DC (1993) - 3rd annual induction.
• Black Experts - Diversity Sports
• Ebony Society of Philatelic Events & Reflections (ESPER) - 2012 winner of Eugene Robinson's Cachet Contest for the 1986 commemorative Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., First Day Cover. (pictured)

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• The Greater KC Black History Study Group (GKCBHSG) of the Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH). (President, 2017 - present)
• ​Midwest Afro-American Genealogy Interest Coalition (MAGIC)
• National Association for Black School Educators (NABSE)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Lifetime Donor
• Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM); Lifetime member and co-founder
• National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC)
• North American Society for Sports History (NASSH)
• Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA)

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