Dennis Schroder led Germany to a world title. Now the Nets guard will lead his homeland in another way, as their first black Olympic flag bearer.

German basketball star Dennis Schroder's wife, Ellen Schroder, is filled with pride after her husband was chosen as the nation's first-ever Black athlete to be the Olympic flag bearer.

A Monarchy motion in the Reichstag to substitute for the black-red-gold republican flag the old black-white-red colors of Imperial Germany was rejected.Apparently, this is only an academic defeat; ...