Leading into the 1946 season, at least four Black players were signed by NFL teams, but not all were issued vintage cards. Kenny Washington (who played baseball at UCLA with Robinson) and Woody ...

Kenny Washington, shown in 1938, was a star player at the University of California at Los Angeles. No NFL team drafted him because of an unofficial rule blocking Black players in the league.

Despite the fact that Kenny Washington broke the color barrier in the NFL in 1946, as NFL.com’s Adam Rank once wrote, it’s amazing that he’s referred to as the “Jackie Robinson of the NFL ...

Kenny "Kingfish" Washington emerged from UCLA as one of the best football players in the country at the worst possible time. The NFL was in the middle of what would be a 12-year ban, preventing ...

The Los Angeles Rams Black History Month celebration honors Kenny Washington's jersey number at "threaded through history" exhibit experience in partnership with The Kinsey Collection at SoFi Stadium.

In a post on X, UCLA highlighted the storied career of former Bruins running back Kenny Washington. The Lincoln-Heights native, Washington, was a dual-threat player for the Bruins in one of the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has begun development on a Untitled Kenny Washington film about the triumphs and hardships of the first Black NFL player leading up to his professional debut with the ...