How Rane Carnegie is Continuing His Grandfather Herb Carnegie’s Legacy

On Feb. 29, the Northwestern University Kellog Alumni of Chicago and Sports Business Clubs hosted a screening of the touching and heartfelt documentary “Beyond Their Years.”& The film depicts the incredible stories of the baseball hall-of-famer Buck O’Neil and hockey hall-of-fame trailblazer Herb Carnegie, whom many regard as the best player never to play in the National Hockey League. Unfortunately, Carnegie passed away in 2012, and O’Neil lost his battle with bone marrow cancer six years earlier. However, Carnegie’s grandson Rane attended the special event and participated in the panel discussion as a representative of Herb’s family and his aunt Bernice, who was on Zoom.& Rane, also featured in the documentary, spoke with The Chicago Defender about his grandfather’s immense legacy and the significant impact he had on his life.& “I was fortunate to be a part of the great event,” Rane said. More importantly, the people in that room, the genuine curiosity and empathy that was in that room, was just overwhelming and surreal, to be quite honest. It’s something that I’ll never forget.& “It was an experience of a lifetime for me. It’s something that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life,” he said. Like Grandfather, Like...