Winter Waxing Cold Moon
Just watched The Express, the story of Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner. It was heartfelt, but long. The story though is compelling, a black athlete growing up as Martin Luther King became prominent, a young man finding his identity both as a man and as a football player. It has a dark side, too. His eventual diagnosis of leukemia, coming right on the heels of his signing with the Cleveland Browns. He died the next year, 1963.
