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In the eight-minute song, Dylan addresses the imprisonment of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who was arrested for triple homicide in 1966. He asserts that racial profiling led to an unjust ...

Carter was found guilty in 1966, and Dylan released the song in 1975. Carter was later freed from prison, and the trial was overturned, labeled “unfair”, in 1985. He had served 20 years in ...

Dylan began writing the song after meeting with Carter in person. ‘Roll on John’ follows the life of Dylan’s friend In 2012, Dylan released a new version of a song he had performed in the ...

Bob Dylan’s True Songs “Hurricane” Released in 1975, Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” takes its premise from the true story of the false imprisonment of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter ...

A look at the best song from every Bob Dylan ... line of "Hurricane" — "Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night" — immediately sets the scene for the story of Rubin Carter, a Black ...

Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation lawsuit against blogger Milagro Gramz sparks a free speech debate reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” and Rubin Carter’s ...

The song is one of Dylan’s most linear narratives, journalistically telling the story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a Black middleweight boxer who Dylan argues was framed by New Jersey police ...

Toward the film’s end, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter—the former middleweight boxer about whom Dylan wrote the eponymous song that helped free Carter from prison, where he was languishing on an ...