National Black Marathoners Association

The executive director and co-founder is Anthony (Tony) Reed, the first Black person in the world to run marathons on all seven continents in 2007.

Since 2004, the National Black Marathoners' Association's (NBMA) official logo has been a symbolic race number.

[23] Breaking Three Hours: Trailblazing African American Women Marathoners[24][25][26] is a 2022 feature-length documentary film directed and written by Anthony Renard Reed.

[27] It is about nine USA-born, African American women, who ran 26.2-mile marathons in under three hours and were inducted into the National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame.

The third section focuses on the collective challenges which the runners faced, such as racism, sexism, work-life balance, religion, crashes, breast cancer, and body shaming.

Filming for the interviews and introductions took place between August 15 and 29, 2021 in Tucson, Arizona; Boston, Massachusetts; Detroit, Michigan; Baltimore, Maryland; and Alexandria, Virginia.

The closing scenes, which featured Marilyn Bevans, were recorded by Anthony Renard Reed at the 2022 Boston Marathon.

In The Washington Post, Kelyn Soong wrote in April 2023 that the documentary has caused "renewed attention" to the "exclusive list of Black American female marathoners to break the three-hour barrier," their stories, and "the fact that relatively few Black American women have broken the three-hour marathon barrier.

[50] The film features nationally ranked milers and two-milers Ronald and Richard “Dick” Gregory[51] from Saint Louis, MO.

[55][56][57] Ten years later, Shalisa Davis set the world record for running marathons on all the continents in seven days, thirty minutes, twenty-seven seconds.

It states the myth that African Americans are sprinters and not distance runners and disputes the myth by showing National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame inductee, Shawanna White, crossing the finish line at the Cincinnati Flying Pig race.

The final scene was recorded at the site of the Windsor Plantation, outside of Port Gibson, Mississippi, where his great-grandfather, Benjamin Coleman was a slave.