National Links Trust celebrates Black golfers with ‘Uneven Fairways’ documentary screening

In this Nov. 11, 1957, file photo, Charlie Sifford works out at the Western Avenue golf course in Los Angeles. The son and ex-daughter-in-law of the late black golf pioneer have been sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison for stealing from his estate. The pair had pleaded guilty last month to stealing $315,000. Sifford died in February at 92. (AP Photo/Harold P. Matosian, File) Credit:& AP & by Amber D. Dodd Special to the& AFRO & To celebrate Black History Month, The National Links Trust (NLT), a non-profit organization created to protect and promote municipal golf courses, showed the documentary “Uneven Fairways” on Feb. 20. The screening took place at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. & “The legends of Black golf have forged for inclusion at the highest levels of golf competition for all people,” said Damian Cosby, executive director of NLT.& Released in 2009, Uneven Fairways is narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, an avid golfer whose activism and work in Black communities stretches back to being a student at Morehouse College in the 1960s.& & The film highlights the pantheon of Blacks–from Pete Brown, the first Black golfer to win a PGA...