How a surrogate ‘Dad’ taught me to run, and lifted us all in the inner city
Rocky Adams stood about six-foot-two, with a big belly and grizzled silver and black hair. In his sixties, he’d been through segregation in Alabama where he’d been made to use “colored only” washrooms. He’d run track on the same team as Olympian Jesse Owens, and talked about Jesse like he was just around the…