O, for the days when drunk driving was viewed as a selling point for malt liquor!
Although anything that includes the genius of Redd Foxx can’t be all bad. One of the great joys of life is running across archival boxing footage from the 1970s and hearing him doing color commentary ringside along guys like James Brown. Foxx used to run with Malcolm X when they were young. Redd Foxx was an underacknowledged king of black America for about 20 years there, from his comedy albums in the late ’50s up through Sanford and Son.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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