Pat Riley discusses how Colin Gowell became not only the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then became the United States' first black secretary of state.
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Alonzo Mourning on Overtown, a community just north of downtown Miami. This area served as a cultural and economic center for Black Americans before a highway and public transportation hub displaced many of its citizens.
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Mike Miller talks about legendary sportsman and activist Arthur Ashe, who turned down Harvard to play tennis at UCLA. In 1968, Arthur Ashe became the first African-American male to win the US Open Title.
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LeBron James talks about how Joe Louis rose from a sharecropping community in Alabama to become the world heavyweight champion and a sergeant in the US Army.
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