Sugar Ray Leonard

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'Thick Thighs Save Lives': La La Anthony Breaks the Internet with Sexy Profile Pose

“Power” actress La La Anthony is among many social distancing at home, but she isn’t letting herself go in the looks

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Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz musician who is widely credited as being one of the creators of modern day jazz. He was born on October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to Thelonious and Barbara Monk. He had an older sister named Marion and a younger brother named Thomas. When

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Jamie Foxx Bulks Up For Mike Tyson Biopic, Shares Photos Of New Look

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The Mary Ellen Strong Foundation: Strong Spirit, Strong Mind, Strong Community

The shortage of Black, licensed mental health providers is the problem that the Mary Ellen Strong Foundation is working to

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Roy Jones Jr.

Roy Jones Jr. is an American boxer, born on the 16th of January, 1969 in Pensacola, Florida, USA. While also developing sequential interests in music and acting, Jones is most notably known as an all-time American boxer, winning a host of trophies to his name in an exciting career. What has

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Boxer Larry Holmes - Fight-by-Fight Career Record

Larry Holmes posted a remarkable 69 wins, including 44 KOs against only six losses, during a career that spanned nearly three decades. Holmes, whose, left jab is rated among the best in boxing history, according to Wikipedia, was the World Boxing Council heavyweight champ from 1978 to 1983. He also

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African-American Tennis Champion Althea Gibson Quotes

Althea Gibson, a sharecroppers daughter raised on welfare mostly in New York City, learned tennis through public clubs. She rose to become the first African-American to play at in the Forest Hills and in the Wimbledon championships, and the first African-American to win either. Althea Gibson broke

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Mahershala Ali Lands “Dream Role”, To Play Legendary Boxer Jack Johnson In HBO Series ‘Unruly’

Marvel Studio’s new Blade, Marhershala Ali, will be hopping in the boxing ring and playing the legendary boxer Jack Johnson who was the world’s first Black heavyweight

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Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier was a professional boxer and former World Heavyweight Champion. He was born on January 12, 1944 and was the youngest of several children. His parents were farmers and lived in Beaufort, South Carolina. They lived in relative poverty and Joe had to work as a farmhand from a very early

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1971

Sam Langford: History’s Forgotten Boxer

Sports historian Clay Moyle describes Canadian-born Sam Langford as one of the most successful and yet little known boxers of the 20th Century. In the excerpt below, drawn from his recently publisher book titled Sam Langford: Boxing’s Greatest Uncrowned Champion, Moyle makes his case for that

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1956

Sol Butler: First African-American to Quarterback a Team for All Four Years of College

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Martin Lawrence

Martin Lawrence is an American actor and comedian who has starred in numerous Hollywood hits. He was born on April 16, 1965 to John and Chlora Lawrence. John Lawrence was enlisted in the U.S. military and serving in Frankfurt, Germany at the time so Martin was born there. He was named after the

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1965

Jamie Foxx Bulks Up, Confirms Mike Tyson Biopic is in the Works – Free Press of Jacksonville

Jamie Foxx bulks up, confirms Mike Tyson biopic is in the

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Stabroek Sports’ Boxing’s Hall of Fame

Terrence Alli can be described as the greatest Guyanese boxer never to win a world

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Sugar Ray Leonard Talks Boxing, Personal Demons, and Greatest Triumphs

As Ali had done to opponents many times prior, Leonard began a mind war with

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Nina Simone - The Legend (part 1 of 6)

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Cooper, Jack Leroy (1888-1970)

Jack L. Cooper is widelyacknowledged as the first African American radio broadcaster. Cooper, born inMemphis, Tennessee on September 18,1888, was the youngest of 10 children. He was raised in a poor, single-parenthome, and, at the age of 10, quit school and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to work at

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Jan

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1970

Lil’ Kim

Lil’ Kim shared a Grammy in 2002 with Christina Aguilera, Pink and Mya. The four re-recorded the classic 1970s single “Lady Marmalade” for the soundtrack to the 2001 movie Moulin Rouge… “G.O.A.T.” stands for Greatest Of All Time; the phrase has often been used by boxer

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Jamie Foxx Bulks Up For Mike Tyson Biopic, Shares Photos Of New Look

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Shoeless Joe Jackson

Shoeless Joe Jackson , byname of Joseph Jefferson Jackson (born July 16, 1888, Greenville, S.C., U.S.—died Dec. 5, 1951, Greenville), American professional baseball player, by many accounts one of the greatest, who was ultimately banned from the game because of his involvement in the 1919 Black

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1888

What Would The G.O.A.T Say?

Muhammad Ali Jr. is quoted as saying that his dad would not agree with the Black Lives Matter movement, would consider the protesters of the George Floyd murder to be devils, and that his father would have supported Donald

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Floyd Mayweather pays funeral expenses for George Floyd

Former champion boxer Floyd Mayweather will pay the funeral expenses for George Floyd who died in police custody after Derek Chauvin, who was fired from his job as a Minneapolis police officer, pressed his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck until he stopped

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Raoul Walsh

As a young man, Walsh worked a variety of jobs in Mexico and Texas. His acting career began in 1907 when he performed onstage in San Antonio. Shortly thereafter he returned to New York (where he took the name Raoul), and by 1909 he was playing cowboy roles in silent films for the

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Herndon, Norris Bumstead (1897–1977)

Norris Bumstead Herndon was the second president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, founded by his father, Alonzo Herndon, in 1905. Herndon was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 15, 1897, the only child of Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil, a graduate and teacher at Atlanta University, and Alonzo

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1977

'Still Not 100 Percent': Utah Jazz Player Rudy Gobert Faces Lingering COVID-19 Symptoms Three Months After Diagnosis

Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert may be forever associated with the NBA suspending its season in March because of

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The Hawk of the Ring: Julian Jackson Pt. 2

This left a vacancy with the title and two contenders: Jackson and South Korean boxer and future world champion In-Chul

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Molyneux, Thomas (1784–1818)

By all rights Thomas Molyneux should have become recognized as the first world boxing champion from the United States. Born in 1784 to parents enslaved by a wealthy Virginian plantation owner named Molyneux, Tom— because of his size and strength— was selected to engage in prizefighting matches with

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Uganda: How Late Bloomer Magwali Gave Up Firefighting to Enjoy Football

The 23-year-old is a jack of all trades who plays for the national beach soccer team yet his arrival at 16-time champions SC Villa came when he was playing football for the sake of it in the third-tier Regional

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Abe Attell

Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ (born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died February 7, 1970, New Paltz, New York), American professional boxer, undisputed world featherweight champion from 1906 through 1912. Attell was from a poor Jewish family and began his boxing career

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