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...The celebration will also include soul grandee Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr) and American football star Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge). “You mean no one else is coming?” Brown asks, nonplussed....
...Cassius Parmensis is not a name likely to feature in discussions among Donald Trump’s advisers as they consider how to deploy the outgoing president’s war chest and fan base in order to resurrect his fortunes...
...“For once in my career I’d done something not about identity . . . and I get a sticker for being brown.”...
...Its lead characters are Cassius Clay, who that evening has beaten Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight boxing championship; Jim Brown, beginning his transition from footballing phenomenon to film actor...
...He is anonymous, a black everyman, but other works celebrate specific heroes — Jesse Owens, Charlie Parker, Cassius Clay — as if instating them in art history....
...“He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus,” as Cassius put it, “and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about .”...
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