As the afternoon turned to dusk, the crowd grew on the Plaza. Burnie's friends invited their friends and Burnie turned up the music.
Billy Marlin came down from 199th St. to MC the party with HEAT and SOL announcer Mike Baiamonte. He wanted to DJ, but DJ Irie wouldn't let him near the turntables.
The HEAT dancers crashed the party to mix it up with the crowd. The guests partyed the night away with the Dancers.
Pat Riley discusses how Colin Gowell became not only the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then became the United States' first black secretary of state.
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Alonzo Mourning on Overtown, a community just north of downtown Miami. This area served as a cultural and economic center for Black Americans before a highway and public transportation hub displaced many of its citizens.
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Mike Miller talks about legendary sportsman and activist Arthur Ashe, who turned down Harvard to play tennis at UCLA. In 1968, Arthur Ashe became the first African-American male to win the US Open Title.
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LeBron James talks about how Joe Louis rose from a sharecropping community in Alabama to become the world heavyweight champion and a sergeant in the US Army.
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