January 17, 2020: Combat and Incarceration, Part One

17/01/2020 29 min
January 17, 2020: Combat and Incarceration, Part One

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Episode Synopsis

This week starts our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Louisiana DOC’s boxing program. For this episode, we discuss his thirty-five-year prison term that began in 1976 at the age of 17, and how coming into contact with the Black Power movement- one …