Legendary Football Running Back & Activist Jim Brown Dead at 87

Legendary football running back and activist Jim Brown has died at age 87 Thursday night peacefully at his home.

In 1967, Brown organized a meeting in Cleveland of the nation’s top Black athletes, including Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor, who later became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, to support boxer Muhammad Ali’s fight against the war in Vietnam.

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