Word In Black This commentary is part of Unerased | Black Women Speak’s December exploration, Claiming Our Space: Preserving ...

Dynamics like these led Westbrook to organize and advocate for more representation in fencing, first forming a collective of Black and Latino fencers known as “the Brotherhood.” As Cottingham ...

Peter Westbrook was the first African-American and Asian-American to medal in Olympic fencing, later launching ... her wealthy family in Japan with half-Black children. It was also Westbrook ...

Westbrook, 72, was the founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation, which introduced young people — many of them Black and underprivileged — to the world of fencing. That foundation is where my ...