Gary Phillips’s “Ash Dark as Night” is the ... by the shrill whistle of Helms Bakery delivery trucks, the R&B music of Johnny Otis, and the public pronouncements of Mayor Sam Yorty and ...
Gary Phillips, the first University of Houston men’s basketball player to earn first-team All-America honors and who won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics, died Jan. 26. He was 85.