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The world according to Walter Palmer The educator, organizer, and alumnus discusses his six decades of activism, growing up in the Black Bottom, studying and teaching at Penn, his work at CHOP, the student strike of 1967, the Vietnam War, Frank Rizzo, Donald Trump, school choice, gun violence, the Chauvin trial, and why he thinks racism should be declared a national public health crisis. Image: Eric Sucar
Two weeks before he was assassinated in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. called organizer and activist Walter Palmer to discuss some concerns Black youth in Philadelphia had about King’s commitment to the anti-war movement. The youth asked Palmer to speak with King and let him know of their grievances.
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA John Chaney’s raspy, booming voice drowned out the gym when he scolded Temple players over a turnover at the top of his basketball sins or inferior effort. His voice was loudest when it came to picking unpopular fights, lashing out at NCAA policies he said discriminated against Black athletes. And it could be profane when Chaney let his own sense of justice get the better of him with fiery confrontations that threatened to undermine his role as father figure to scores of his underprivileged players.
Complicated, cranky, quick with a quip, Chaney was an imposing presence on the court and a court jester off it, all while building the Owls perched in rugged North Philadelphia into one of the toughest teams in the nation.
John Chaney, commanding Temple basketball coach, dies at 89
By DAN GELSTONJanuary 30, 2021 GMT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) John Chaney’s raspy, booming voice drowned out the gym when he scolded Temple players over a turnover at the top of his basketball sins or inferior effort. His voice was loudest when it came to picking unpopular fights, lashing out at NCAA policies he said discriminated against Black athletes. And it could be profane when Chaney let his own sense of justice get the better of him with fiery confrontations that threatened to undermine his role as father figure to scores of his underprivileged players.
Dan Gelston
FILE - A statue of former Temple coach John Chaney is unveiled before the start of an NCAA college basketball game against Villanova in Philadelphia, in this Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, file photo. John Chaney, one of the nationâs leading Black coaches and a commanding figure during a Hall of Fame basketball career at Temple, has died. He was 89. His death was announced by the university Friday, Jan. 29, 2021.(AP Photo/Michael Perez, File) January 29, 2021 - 4:02 PM
PHILADELPHIA - John Chaneyâs raspy, booming voice drowned out the gym when he scolded Temple players over a turnover â at the top of his basketball sins â or inferior effort. His voice was loudest when it came to picking unpopular fights, lashing out at NCAA policies he said discriminated against Black athletes. And it could be profane when Chaney let his own sense of justice get the better of him with fiery confrontations that threatened to undermine his role as