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Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes is a retired professional boxer who was the WBC Heavyweight Champion from 1978 to 1983. Holmes was also the Ring Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985, and the IBF Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985. Holmes is considered by many to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all

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Mar

21

1973

Boxer Leon Spinks born

Olympic boxing champion Leon Spinks was bornin St. Louis, Missouri. Spinks won the heavyweight championship from Muhammad Ali in February 1978. Seven months and one day later, Ali regained the title.

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Jan

0

1999

Steven, Raul led the way for the Frank dynasty

Steven, Raul led the way for the Frank dynasty -Today Stabroek Sports looks at a family of fighters and profiles two who went on to fight for world titles

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WBC Junior Middleweight Title

Thomas Hit Man Hearns wins the WBC Junior Middleweight title. This is one of five weight classes that he has won a boxing title making him the first Black to win boxing titles in five different weight classes.

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Dec

3

1982

(1894) William Saunders Scarborough, “The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question,”

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Will Smith

Will Smith (born Willard Carroll Smith, Jr.) is a Hollywood actor, producer and musician. He was born and raised in Philadelphia in a Baptist household. His father owned a refrigeration company and his mother was a Philadelphia school board administrator. He attended Overbrook High School where his

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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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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

12

1970

Jack Johnson, boxer died

Jack Johnson, heavyweight boxing champion Died: June 10, 1946

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Jun

10

1946

Miller Faces Lifetime Ban

After failing yet another drug test for performance enhancing substances, Big Baby Miller’s fight scheduled for July 9th against Jerry Forrest has officially been

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Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson permanently retired from boxing on this day with six victories in title bouts to his credit -- more than any other fighter in history.

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Dec

10

1965

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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Woody Strode and Other African-American Athletes Went from Sports to The Silver Screen – Free Press of Jacksonville

While he helped break the NFL’s color line in 1946 with the Los Angeles Rams, Strode is better remembered for his role as Draba, the Ethiopian gladiator, in the 1960 action-packed historical drama

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

Jamie Foxx (left) and Mike Tyson

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Robinson, Sugar Ray

Robinson, Sugar Ray, 1920–89, American boxer, b. Detroit as Walker Smith, Jr. He began boxing after three years of high school in New York City. Having won all his amateur fights (about 90), including the Golden Gloves featherweight title, Robinson turned professional in 1940. He won the

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Joe Louis

Having a sharecropper and a slave as his ancestors, the eighth child of Munn and Lilly Barrow, Joseph Louis Barrow, was born on May 14, 1914, in a cotton-field country near Alabama. Belonging to a financially weak family, Joe Louis received little education as a child and worked odd jobs in order

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May

14

1914

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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Jul

16

1888

Muhammad Ali Jr. Says His Dad Would Have Hated The Black Lives Matter Protests

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A Successful Decision-Making Strategy for Choosing Where to Donate Your Historical Memorabilia

In the article below, Al “Butch” Smith Jr., PhD, and Peter Blecha describe the process by which the family of prominent Seattle photographer Al Smith Sr. chose the institution to permanently house the ten-thousand- image Smith collection. The process they developed and followed could be

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

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Queen Latifah Is Still Pushing For Ladies First With Her Queen Collective Program

For the second year in a row, Queen Latifah is showcasing new short films with her program called the Queen

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First Black World Title

George Dixon, born July 29, 1870 in Africville, (Halifax), Nova Scotia; becomes the first Black to hold a WORLD title in boxing. George beat Nunc Wallace in the Pelican Club in England & recieved $4,250.00 - he was the only Black in the Club!

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Jul

29

1870

Boxing Legend: Harry "The Black Panther" Wills Pt. II

In part one of our entry on Harry “The Black Panther” Wills we went into his rivalry against “The Boston Bonecrusher” Sam Langford between 1914 and

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Muhammad Ali Jr: My dad would call Black Lives Matter a 'racist' cause

However, on the fourth anniversary of his death, his son, Muhammad Ali Jr. states that his famous father wouldn’t be happy with the Black Lives Matter

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Jamie Foxx Talks Going Through a Physical Transformation to Play Mike Tyson In Upcoming Biopic

Jamie Foxx has been trying to get the Mike Tyson biopic off the ground for years, and now the project has finally taken

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George Godfrey

George Godfrey was the first black U.S. heavyweight boxing champion.

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Jan

0

2000

Spike Lee

The son of the jazz composer Bill Lee, he was reared in a middle-class Brooklyn neighbourhood. He majored in communications at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, where he directed his first Super-8 films and met his future coproducer, Monty Ross. In 1978 Lee entered New York University’s Graduate Film

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Lloyd Bacon

Lloyd Bacon , in full Lloyd Francis Bacon (born December 4, 1889, San Jose, California, U.S.—died November 15, 1955, Burbank, California), American director who made some 100 films and was known for his efficiency and businesslike approach; his popular movies included 42nd Street (1933) and It

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Nov

15

1955

Muhammad Ali Loses Boxing Championship Recognition

World Boxing Association and New York State Athletic Commission withdrew recognition of Muhammad Ali as world heavyweight boxing champion because of his refusal to serve in the U.S. armed forces.

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Apr

28

1967

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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