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| Welcome to Basic Civitas - The home of today's most talented and influential African-American authors. | | | Being Sugar Ray by Kenneth Shropshire
 | THE LIFE OF SUGAR RAY ROBINSON, AMERICA'S GREATEST BOXER AND THE FIRST CELEBRITY ATHLETE
If imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery then there should be little doubt Sugar Ray Robinson is the greatest and most influential American boxer of all time. Fighters have been adopting his name, and trying to imitate his inimitable fighting style for decades.
Robinson transcended race and sport to become a celebrity athlete in a way that no one - white or black -had accomplished before him.
From his business empire to his prized flamingo pink Cadillac, described as the "Hope Diamond of Harlem," author Kenneth Shropshire shows Sugar Ray was the trailblazer whom every athlete since has been trying, consciously or otherwise, to emulate ... More
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