Twenty years ago last month, tennis great Arthur Ashe called the show. Brian re-airs his comments on the competing, and possibly converging, visions of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
Web Exclusive Audio: David Dinkins, former mayor of New York City and professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia University, remembers his friend Arthur Ashe.
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Beautiful. What I wouldn't give to have a contemporary tennis star, or any professional athlete, be as politically aware, passionate and, as you say Brian, "eloquent", as Arthur Ashe.
What a gentleman!
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