by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Rafer Johnson, the first Black captain of a United States Olympic team, has died. He was 86. Johnson, a renown athlete, and humanitarian carried the American flag into Rome’s Olympic Stadium in 1960. He went on to win gold in the decathlon and became a close … Continued

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