OPINION: 'Despite what it might have cost him in goodwill from white America, Russell was unapologetically political — and unapologetically Black — throughout his career,' writes AlastairMoock.
at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Bill Russell is presented with the 2010 Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama during an East Room event at the White House February 15, 2011 in Washington, DC. And enough years have passed for my aforementioned Twitter companions to assert some imagined difference between the protests of the past and present.
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