The Cultural Events Board of the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a talk by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter about his personal experiences on Friday, Feb. 21, to foster deeper understanding of the racial issues surrounding professional sports.
The talk, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., will be in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center on the CU-Boulder campus. Â鶹ÒùÔº who present a valid CU ID will be admitted free of charge. The cost for others is $5.Ìý
Rubin Carter was a prominent boxer with a bright future, labeled the best boxer by many in the early 1960s. In 1966 he was accused of triple murder and was sentenced to three lifetime sentences in a federal penitentiary in 1967, despite what some claimed were holes in the prosecution's arguments.
In February 1988 the trial was dismissed and Carter, an accomplished author by then, was a free man. Carter's insights into racism in certain arenas of American life are both illuminating and touching.
For more information about the event, please call (303) 492-3327 or check out the Web page at: . To contact the Cultural Events Board by mail, write to: University of Colorado CEB, 206 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309.