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The city renamed Lincoln Park Drive as Ezzard Charles Drive in 1976, a year after his death. In 2015, Cincinnati’s ArtWorks installed a mural depicting Charles near Republic and Liberty streets ...
Charles was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, in 1966. He died in 1973. A year later, his hometown named Ezzard Charles Drive in his honor.
WINTON PLACE, Ohio (WKRC) - Ezzard Charles' son and namesake saw the full-body sculpture of his father for the first time Thursday evening. "I think it's very accurate, and it's a wonderful ...
At the foundation's opening fundraiser August 15, Charles saw the sculpture for the first time. "It's a wonderful thing," said Charles, who lives in Illinois.
When finished, the statue of Ezzard Charles will stand eight-feet tall upon a five-foot, granite pedestal in the West End's Laurel Park.
The statue sits in Ezzard Charles Park, surrounded by 100 newly-planted trees. All of it was made possible with the $275,000 raised by Cincinnati parks, donors, and residents in the West End ...
They incessantly booed him, and it only got worse after he defeated Louis for the heavyweight title in 1950, writes Bill Dettloff in his new book, "Ezzard Charles: A Boxing Life." ...
Ezzard Charles and James Brown will live forever in Cincinnati through a bright, colorful ArtWorks mural gracing the three blocks of Liberty Street between Main and Race.
Police are on scene of a crash with reported injuries on south I-75 Tuesday morning. Crews have blocked the ramp from south I-75 to Western Avenue and the Ezzard Charles area.
CINCINNATI — Southbound I-75 at the Ezzard Charles Drive exit has reopened after a pedestrian was fatally struck on the highway in the area. Police said just before noon Wednesday that the ...
CINCINNATI — Interstate 75 south at Freeman Avenue/US-50 west has reopened after it was shut down from a semitruck that had jackknifed. The crash was located near Ezzard Charles Drive.