In 1961, Bill Russell led his fellow Boston Celtics in refusing to play in an NBA game in protest of systemic racism. It happened again on Wednesday.
A four-year-old boy who hid inside a duffel bag that was placed out with the family trash was nearly crushed in a garbage truck’s compactor before a sanitation worker heard him scream. Jacob Deates had climbed inside the duffel bag just as the garbage truck came by on Monday morning.