Former Athlete Rafer Johnson, Country Musician Charley Pride, both 86

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Former Athlete Rafer Johnson, Country Musician Charley Pride, both 86

Black America lost two of its iconic figures this month. Both born in 1934, Rafer Lewis Johnson died of a stroke on December 2 in Los Angeles and Charley Frank Pride was a COVID-19 victim who succumbed on December 12 in Dallas, Texas. Both men were athletes, Johnson an Olympic decathlete, and Pride was once […]

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