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Posts tagged with Sonny Liston

Last Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 · 2:11 p.m.

How racial profiling drove away Philly’s first heavyweight boxing champion

"I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia."