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Added Honorary Doctor of Laws

I can't find a source for it right now, but I was there. It should be in the Sunday papers, most likely the Toronto Star, or the Monday Globe and Mail. York is notoriously slow in updating their web pages. https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/spare_us_the_lies_about_the_late_hurricane_carter_mulshine.html

Removed European record/title

I removed this section as I can find no trace of him at all in the European amateur records and the 1955 European lightweight championship was won by Harry Kurschat not Carter.

Semi-protected edit request on 25 April 2021

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Rubin Carter was never found innocent and therefore it is not factual to say he was “wrongfully convicted” he was let go for time served he was never found not guilty so this information is wrong. 2A00:23C8:8604:4701:1055:FD74:B34E:3AEE (talk) 16:25, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Please see the above. Deauthorized. ^(talk) 16:55, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The text you wish to delete was reached through talk page consensus. Also, wiki’s article List of wrongful convictions in the United States states that it includes those who’ve had their convictions overturned and charges dropped. --2600:1002:B1C3:3A8:34C7:D24A:E6E6:61D8 (talk) 01:40, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Rubin Carter was never found innocent he was merely Released from prison. Therefore he cannot definitively be proclaimed as “wrongly imprisoned” 2A01:4C8:1424:9169:F169:8D16:CF67:82D4 (talk) 10:11, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: See above. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:28, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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For the section, "In popular culture" Under, "Carter's story inspired:" Add the following:

The Patti Smith Group song, Pumping (my heart), from the 1976 album Radio Ethiopia also deals with the incarceration of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. In a May 6, 2021, post on her Substack blog, Patti Smith shared the following anecdote about her and Bob Dylan's songs about Carter: "One early summer evening in 1975, I was walking down the street in Greenwich Village, scribbling down some lyrics on an envelope, when I bumped into Bob Dylan. He asked me what I was writing and I told him a song to a boxer. He seemed taken aback and said he had just written one too. Afraid that he might be annoyed, I said yours is probably better, and he laughed. At the time he was writing the songs for the album Desire and was on his way to a loft to play some of them and asked me to come along. I can still picture him with his acoustic guitar in that dimly lit place with only a handful of people at his feet. That night he played many of the songs he was soon to record...He also sang Hurricane about the boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who was serving time in a New Jersey prison for a murder he didn’t commit." Source: https://pattismith.substack.com/p/pumping-my-heart?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzgzMzUyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNjA0MzU5MCwiXyI6IkNiZldrIiwiaWF0IjoxNjIwMzk4OTE5LCJleHAiOjE2MjA0MDI1MTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMDA3NjEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.1wW29vpVlaTZgux2A4u8KtnKWya3NnBcT2vcj_sj910 159.178.224.138 (talk) 14:53, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, but not at this length, with this long a quote. Can you condense? Drmies (talk) 14:54, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DNA evidence

I read in a newspaper quite some time ago that a recent DNA evidence examination had pointed towards Carter's guilt but can find no record of my reading now .Anyone else remember or see such ?--— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht ^Talk/_Stalk 21:11, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]