Chuck Cooper III is President and CEO of the Chuck Cooper Foundation, which honors and carries forward the legacy of his father, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Chuck Cooper, the first African American drafted into the NBA. He celebrates the life of activist and athlete, basketball’s Bill Russell.
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The Boston Celtics are back and looking to add to the 16 NBA Championship banners hanging at the w:TD Garden by Paul Keleher. 19 April 2008. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
This one episode engenders the most pride of all. All these vignettes are amazing. Thank you, thank you. I know it must have been challenging to put together but all of you have done extraordinary jobs.
My photos are in this doco, uncredited.