{"id":3050,"date":"2026-09-13T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/?page_id=3050"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:58:24","slug":"rubin-hurricane-carter-forever-a-fighter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/rubin-hurricane-carter-forever-a-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubin Hurricane Carter: Forever a Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Photo-4-Rubin_Hurricane_Carter-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Photo-4-Rubin_Hurricane_Carter-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Photo-4-Rubin_Hurricane_Carter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Photo-4-Rubin_Hurricane_Carter-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Photo-4-Rubin_Hurricane_Carter-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Photo-4-Rubin_Hurricane_Carter.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We take a last road trip with Rubin\u2014 back to rural Georgia where he once picked cotton as a child. We\u2019re with him and partner John Artis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re both lifers\u2014 John was the kid who wrongly went to prison with Rubin for killing three whites in a New jersey bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the road, Rubin rediscovers the forces that forged him: segregation, discrimination, and racial hatred. He\u2019s buoyant, charismatic, determined, undeterred&#8211; but it\u2019s an unforgettable journey back to Ku Klux Klan country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His story is his resurrection song\u2014 from black American destroyer in the ring who persevered\u2014through talent and will against all odds\u2014to become a civil rights icon known around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the 60s, Rubin was a contender for the middleweight crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our story is not only how he survived prison\u2014 but how he fought to make the wrongly convicted a mainstream issue\u2014 and battled to outlaw the death penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Rubin Hurricane Carter Forever a Fighter Clip 1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1116285592?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a last road trip with Rubin\u2014 back to rural Georgia where he once picked cotton as a child. We\u2019re with him and partner John Artis. They\u2019re both lifers\u2014 John was the kid who wrongly went to prison with Rubin for killing three whites in a New jersey bar. On the road, Rubin rediscovers the forces that forged him: segregation, discrimination, and racial hatred. He\u2019s buoyant, charismatic, determined, undeterred&#8211; but it\u2019s an unforgettable journey back to Ku Klux Klan country. His story is his resurrection song\u2014 from black American destroyer in the ring who persevered\u2014through talent and will against all odds\u2014to become a civil rights icon known around the world. Back in the 60s, Rubin was a contender for the middleweight crown. Our story is not only how he survived prison\u2014 but how he fought to make the wrongly convicted a mainstream issue\u2014 and battled to outlaw the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commffest.com\/Camella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}