Wil Haygood talks to Steve Inskeep about the life and career of Sugar Ray Robinson, including his many fights against rival boxer Jake LaMotta. Haygood is the author of a new biography of Robinson ...

Florida A&M University professor Luther D. Wells and alumnus Reginald L. Wilson are taking “Sugar Ray,” a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson to an off-Broadway theater.

Aside from taking on the likes of Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano and Carmen Basillio, Robinson challenged mob control of the fight game in the 1940s and 50s, leading to Senate corruption hearings.

A dazzling bio of Sugar Ray Robinson; an appreciation of Winston Churchill and five books by New Jerseyans.

The item in Walter Winchell’s column one day last June sounded genuinely solicitous. “Sugar Ray Robinson and gambler-shylocks are at war,” it read. “Buddies rushed out of Harlem bars and ...

Wharton professor Kenneth Shropshire was just a teenaged boy selling hot dogs in a park in California when he first saw Sugar Ray Robinson. Though at the time he wasn't familiar with Robinson's ...

Robinson is the subject of a new biography by Wil Haygood called Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Haygood tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that Robinson was more ...

Robinson is the subject of a new biography by Wil Haygood called Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Haygood tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that Robinson was more ...