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NFL 360 video of documentary on Jimmy Raye

Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report Click below to watch the film on Jimmy Raye's ground-breaking careers as a Black quarterback at Michigan State and Black coach in college and the NFL. NFL 360: Black History Month Special | THE INDELIBLE LEGACY OF JIMMY RAYE Fantastic job by the NFL360 crew. The host is NFL veterans Jason McCourtney, the narrator NFL veteran Emmanuel Sanders. The producer/director Osahon Tongo, a former Georgia Tech football player. -30- I invite you to…

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Read more about the article NFL 360 uses historic train to tell Jimmy Raye’s Underground Railroad journey on NFL Network

NFL 360 uses historic train to tell Jimmy Raye’s Underground Railroad journey on NFL Network

PHOTO: Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report Click here for a 30-second trailer on the documentary. By TOM SHANAHAN CANDOR, N.C. – Jimmy Raye’s pioneering story began with Michigan State’s Underground Railroad, departing segregated Fayetteville, N.C., in 1964. His journey crossed the Mason Dixon Line. It carried him on to ground-breaking playing and coaching careers in college and the NFL. Seven decades later, telling his story includes historic restored train cars found in a small…

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Read more about the article The Jimmy Raye Project: A Story of a Man who carved a path for Black players and coaches

The Jimmy Raye Project: A Story of a Man who carved a path for Black players and coaches

PHOTO: Jimmy Raye today posing as if he had boarded Duffy Daugherty's Underground Railroad in 1964 bound for Michigan State. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report NFL Media's release promoting its February 8 screening of a documentary on Jimmy Raye during Super Bowl week. *** The National Football League is celebrating this Black History Month with a private screening of The Jimmy Raye Project, a special episode of the Emmy Award-Winning series 'NFL 360' that explores how one man's story…

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