Video: Dr. Boyce Watkins
Amy Goodman Interview from Democracy Now with LaTonya Goldsby (cousin of Tamir)
AMY GOODMAN: Latonya, you tweeted on Monday, “@Mizzou footballers did it. You can, too @KingJames. Tamir could have been your son. #NoJusticeNoLebron.”
LATONYA GOLDSBY: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: What is—can you say whether LeBron James responded and why you see this linked to the Missouri football players?
LATONYA GOLDSBY: No, he hasn’t responded. Tamir was—Tamir idolized LeBron—that was his favorite basketball player—as most children do. He was his hero. So I felt like reaching out to him in a response that maybe it could generate some type of response from the basketball team, the way that the Missouri football team stood up for their rights, hoping that he would do the same thing.
Andrew Hawkins, Cleveland Browns, highlights Tamir Rice and John Crawford (see interview)
1968 Olympics: John Carlos & Tommie Smith
June 4, 1967 in Cleveland, Ohio – Top black athletes held a news conference in support of Muhammad Ali and his refusal to go to the Vietnam War.
(front row) Bill Russell, Boston Celtics; Muhammad Ali; Jim Brown and Lew Alcindor now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (Back row): Carl Stokes, Democratic State Rep.; Walter Beach, Cleveland Browns; Bobby Mitchell, Washington Redskins; Sid Williams, Cleveland Browns; Curtis McClinton, Kansas City Chiefs; Willie Davis, Green Bay Packers; Jim Shorter, Cleveland Browns and John Wooten, Cleveland Browns.
Muhammad Ali with Dr. Martin Luther King