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The ultimate cover of "Abraham, Martin, and John," though, wasn't recorded by any of these music luminaries. For my money, the single greatest rendition comes from stand-up comedian Jackie "Moms" Mabley. Moms is a legend in her own right, a fearless pioneer who channeled a childhood riddled with violence (content warning for sexual violence) and tragedy into one of the most celebrated comedy careers of the 20th century.
There are a lot of sports teams that are named after, say, animals (Detroit Tigers, Miami Dolphins, Toronto Raptors) or forces of nature (Carolina Hurricanes, Oklahoma City Thunder, Colorado Avalanche), but there are quite a few team names that tie into real, sometimes not-super-well-known history. Let’s take a look at those names and see what we can uncover.
The year was 2001. The sixth graders of Birch Grove Elementary in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota had recently become acquainted with collective trauma via the attack on the World Trade Center at the beginning of their school day months prior. War was starting, we’d witnessed our teachers crying, and we were doing what our generation would come to be experts in through the remaining decades: Dissociating via digital gaming.
