Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aliu tells PEOPLE his hockey journey has been 'a difficult path,' but he hopes sharing his story in the film 'Black Ice' impacts ...

After years of feeling alienated by the NHL and campaigning to diversify the sport, Akim Aliu is getting another shot at playing pro hockey, this time with the San Jose Sharks' minor league affiliate.

Akim Aliu is contorted in directions most humans aren’t capable of stretching. His right leg extends in front of him and his left reaches behind — suspended by straps in the splits several feet off ...

Pro hockey player Akim Aliu is taking the high road with his old coach, Bill Peters... saying the man deserves his new opportunity to work, despite the racist remarks he made more than 10 years ago.

Akim Aliu believes hockey is not for everyone. "The NHL's title for their annual diversity campaign, 'Hockey is For Everyone' makes me crack up," Aliu wrote in a powerful essay for The Players' ...

Pro hockey player Akim Aliu tells TMZ Sports the racism he was forced to endure over the years held him back from reaching his full potential ... and the proof is in the racist pictures. You're ...

Akim Aliu accepted an apology from equipment manager Tony Denzer on Tuesday after Deynzer apologized for wearing blackface at a Halloween party in 2011. Deynzer, an equipment manager for the Colorado ...

Akim Aliu, the player who helped prompt a new discussion about racism and coaching behavior in hockey, is heading back to the ice. Aliu signed Tuesday in the Czech Extraliga for the remainder of the ...

It has been eight years since Akim Aliu walked through the doors of that Halloween party in northern Colorado yet there are still specific details that stay with him. He remembers it being sometime ...

Ex-National Hockey League player Akim Aliu got a public apology from his former team for “wrongdoing” by an equipment manager who was photographed in blackface. The Colorado Eagles, a minor league ...

After years of feeling alienated by the NHL and campaigning to diversify the sport, Akim Aliu is getting another shot at playing pro hockey, this time with the San Jose Sharks' minor league affiliate.