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"Ring Culture" has its roots in the struggle for civil rights

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Bill Russell stopped for a red light in his shiny Lincoln.  Russell had recently delivered a third championship to the city of Boston. It was the dawn of a new decade, the 1960s, and Russell was basketball’s premier player and the first Black superstar in the NBA.  As he sat at the red light, a white man walked up to him and began shouting.  “Hey, n****r, how many crap games did it take for you to win that car?” Russell, in his 1966 autobiograph…
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Madison365 broke the news in on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
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