Arthur Ashe was the first Black man to win the US Open, the Australian Open, and Wimbledon — and he considered his tennis career the least important thing about his life. He used his platform to fight apartheid in South Africa, challenge racial injustice in America, and after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion, became the most prominent AIDS activist in the country before his death at forty-nine.

This episode traces Ashe from the segregated Richmond courts where he learned tennis through the Grand Slam victories, the anti-apartheid activism, the HIV diagnosis he was forced to make public, and the advocacy that defined his final years.

• Learning tennis on segregated courts in Richmond and the barriers he faced as a Black player
• The 1968 US Open, the 1975 Wimbledon triumph over Connors, and the quiet dignity of his game
• The anti-apartheid campaign and his arrest protesting outside the South African embassy
• The HIV diagnosis from a blood transfusion, the forced disclosure, and the AIDS activism until his death