Inside were Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the pride of Paterson’s black community and the nation’s number two-ranked middleweight boxer, and a 19-year-old named John Artis.

The subject of a Bob Dylan song as well as a hit film with Denzel Washington, Carter was a symbol of overcoming racial injustice. ... Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter dies at 76 ...

OTTAWA — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the prizefighter whose racially tinged wrongful murder conviction made him a symbol of injustice and a pop culture cause, died Sunday at the age of 76.