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https://www.umw.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/02/etanthomas027-copy-scaled.jpg25601707Fredericksburg area residents came to UMW to see Thomas, who has earned prestigious awards from the National Basketball Players Association and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation. The retired NBA player is a published poet and author of several activism books, and he currently writes for The Guardian and hosts a show on WPFW 89.3, The Collision, which covers the intersection of sports and politics. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi.