When Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was at his best as a boxer, it would have been impossible to foresee Nelson Mandela or Bob Dylan doing him any favors. With his fearsome, drop-dead glare ...

That’s what happened to Rubin Hurricane Carter, a middleweight who had recently been in a title bout, and 19-year-old John Artis, who met Carter at a local club and needed a drive home.

Middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in a Paterson bar and imprisoned for 19 years. On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 15, Paterson’s City ...

Perhaps as art tried to imitate the life of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the best depiction may have come from Bob Dylan's 1975 song "Hurricane:" The champion of the world. By then Carter had ...

Her father was boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who along with John Artis was jailed for almost two decades over a triple homicide at a Paterson bar, only to see the murder convictions ...

We had arrived at the scene toward the end in which Denzel Washington, playing wrongly imprisoned former middleweight contender Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, meets with his lawyers and debates how ...

PATERSON — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter — the boxer who spent 19 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder in Paterson — became a national icon for people who see ...

Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis were honored in front of the very courthouse where they were tried and wrongfully convicted. Now the street outside the courthouse carries their name.

After a long career with high-profile cases that include the effort to free imprisoned boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Outten & Golden's Lewis Steel, a prominent civil rights attorney, is hanging ...