While many sports stars fill their basements with personal memorabilia celebrating their careers and those of their friends, Baltimore Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth had something different in mind. His man cave is an homage to those who fought for equal treatment, filled with treasures of the civil rights movement.
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With each step down his basement stairs, Domonique Foxworth descends into his own private bomb shelter. Above ground, he earns millions covering the
N.F.L.'s top receivers for the
Baltimore Ravens. Below it in his cellar, he seeks different company.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has a dream in the cover of an autographed memoir. Malcolm X defies a detractor in a typed letter from 1963. Rosa Parks sits, Tommie Smith clenches and Thurgood Marshall reasons in framed and signed artifacts that form Foxworth's growing museum of the civil rights movement.
"Other players around the league, their basements are all jerseys of themselves and their friends in the N.F.L. and the N.B.A.," Foxworth said. "I feel more comfortable with these people around me."
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