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Documentary film "T-Rex" at the Brooklyn Museum.7/21. 7PM. FREE

Claressa "T-Rex" Shields fought to become the first woman from the United States to win a boxing gold medal at the Olympics

Cathy Mather, Community Contributor
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At 17, the unstoppable Claressa "T-Rex" Shields of Flint, Michigan, fought to become the first woman from the United States to win a boxing gold medal at the Olympics. The screening of T-Rex (Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper, 2015, 91 min) is followed by a conversation with producer Sue Jay Johnson; Jason Crutchfield, Claressa's coach; and Brooklyn-based pro boxer Heather Hardy. Co-presented with partnership with Independent Lens and THIRTEEN, with the Women's Sports Foundation.

This FREE screening will be held in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor.

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Photo caption/credit: Claressa "T-Rex" Shields. Photo courtesy of Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper

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