Bring That Week Back: Nov. 9

Magic Johnson's HIV news, Joe Frazier passes, plus more.

R.I.P. - The sports world mourned the loss of some of its brightest lights in 2011 – among them NFL Hall-of-Famers Bubba Smith, John Mackey, Al Davis and Lee Roy Selmon. But it was the death of former world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier on Nov. 7 that produced the biggest outpouring of feeling—including the appearance of the ailing Muhammad Ali, who journeyed to Frazier’s funeral in Philadelphia despite his own declining health, to pay his respects to Smokin’ Joe.(Photo: Philadelphia Daily News/MCT/Landov)

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Boxing Legend Joe Frazier Dies - Former heavyweight champion and boxing legend Joe Smokin’ Joe” Frazier, 67, passes away from liver cancer on Nov. 7, only days after his manager announced Frazier was in the final stages of the disease. Frazier famously fought Muhammad Ali three times and won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. (Photo: Philadelphia Daily News/MCT/LANDOV)

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Conrad Murray Is Found Guilty - On Nov. 7, a Los Angeles jury found Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the singer’s 2009 death. He faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license when he is sentenced on Nov. 29. (Photo: AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, Pool)

Heavy D (@heavyd)  - TWEET: “BE INSPIRED!” Heav took to Twitter on the morning of his death to share this inspiriational comment which became his final message on the social networking site.(Photo: Paras Griffin/Landov)

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Heavy D Dies - Rapper Heavy D, born Dwight Arrington Myers, passes away from respiratory failure on Nov. 8. He was 44yearsold. According to reports, Heavy D experienced difficulty breathing as he tried to climb a set of stairs up to his Beverly Hills home. (Photo: Paras Griffin/Landov)

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Louisiana Town Banishes Confederate Flag - After 60 years, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, removed the Confederate flag flying from atop the Caddo Parish courthouse on Nov. 4. The American Civil Liberties Union had argued that the racist banner prevented the death penalty from being administered fairly because it insinuated to white jurors that Black defendants were less-than-equal.(Photo: Mickey Welsh/Bloomberg News)

Occupy Oakland Brings Fiery Action - The Occupy Oakland movement saw the most fiery and chaotic clashes between protesters and police. Most infamously, police used tear gas on demonstrators on Oct. 25. On Nov. 2, tensions again flared when protesters commandeered an abandoned building and used homemade bomb launchers to fire M80 firecrackers at police.(Photo: REUTERS/ Stephen Lam)

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Occupy Oakland Protests Turn Violent - After a day of peaceful protests on Nov. 2, in which Occupy Oakland protesters shut down one of the city’s key ports and forced several banks to close early for the day, more than 80 people were arrested in a fiery clash with police that night.(Photo: Stephen Lam/Landov)

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Herman Cain Shoots Down Allegations of Sexual Harassment - Herman Cain said at a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Nov. 8, that allegations that he sexually harassed female employees at the National Restaurant Association when he headed the organization were false and wouldn’t halt his run for president. “I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period,” he said. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Magic Johnson on recruiting rap artists to help fight homophobia  - "What we're trying to do is reach out to the hip hop community because they have power—power with their voice, power with that mic in their hand and power with the lyrics that they sing." (Photo: Kevin Winter/NBCUniversal/Getty Images)

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Magic Johnson Commemorates Anniversary of HIV Announcement - Nov. 7 marked the 20-year anniversary of when former Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announced to the world that he had contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Johnson announcement brought worldwide attention to the disease. (Photo: Kevin Winter/NBCUniversal/Getty Images)

Homelessness Programs - More than 100,000 formerly homeless people could be forced to leave their current housing and emergency shelter programs and return to living on the streets. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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U.S. Poverty Rates Hit Record High - A supplemental report published by the U.S. Census Bureau on Nov. 7 found that for the first time, 16 percent — 49.1 million people—are living in poverty in the United States. Of that, about 28 percent of Black households lived in poverty in 2010. The heaviest concentration of poverty was in the South, where 18.5 million families were considered the poorest of the poor. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Penn State Coach Is Fired - Celebrated Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno was dismissed by the school's board of trustees in light of shocking child molestation charges against one of his former assistant coaches, Jerry Sandusky. Paterno said he wished he had done more after being told of the alleged abuse, including a charge that Sandusky had sex in a football locker room shower with an underage boy in 2002. Paterno had been at the school for 61 years, serving as head coach since 1966. (Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)