Brown, whose name is still synonymous with greatness at the running back position more than 50 years after his final NFL game, died at his home in Los Angeles, his wife told the Associated Press. He was 87.
, “the moment itself would be remembered as the first — and last — time that so many African-American athletes at that level came together to support a controversial cause."
“He's always had this strain of conservatism in his politics that Black people do not achieve advancement through the politics of protest, but through the politics of earning as much money as possible, and trying to get out of the capitalist system whatever they can for the purposes of building economic self-sufficiency,” author Dave Zirin, who wrote a biography about Brown in 2018,
The most notable moment of Brown’s acting career might have come in the 1969 movie “100 Rifles,” when he and Raquel Welch had what is cited as the first interracial love scene in a mainstream movie.Brown also made headlines for problems away from the field. He had a series of legal issues, most of which involved allegations of violence against women.
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