Actor Will Smith, one of Muhammad Ali's pallbearers, waits for the Ali family to arrive at the Muhammad Ali's memorial service, Friday, June 10, 2016, in Louisville. Lonnie Ali Michael Clevenger/POOL/REUTERS Lonnie Ali, widow of Muhammad Ali, leaves the funeral home to begin a procession ...
Outside of athletics, too, Ali never shirked at standing up for what he believed in. A prominent civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s, he took his conviction for draft evasion as a conscientious objector all the way to the Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction in 1971. He...
Muhammad Ali had come a long, winding road to that clearing in the African jungle. The truest of American originals, bigger than Babe Ruth, bigger than Joe Louis, he was the most singular performer on any sporting stage in modern history. Ali never aimed to be an antiwar activist or civil...
If Muhammad Ali was in his time the most famous person in the world, it was as much a tribute to his talent for provocation as to his boxing.
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., 17 January 1942 - 3 June 2016) was an American legendary boxer, philanthropist and activist. who was the Heavyweight Champion of the World three times between 1964 and 1979. Below are 30 of 58 sourced Muhammad Ali quotes. Sources and related in...
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Ali was back, much to the consternation of Georgia governor and segregationist Lester Maddox. In the words of activist Julian Bond, the event established Atlanta as “the black political capital of America,” even as Maddox called for a boycott and proclaimed a “Day of Mourning” on the eve...
He was anything but a political activist, but as a gesture of solidarity he joined the Muslim League National Guard, and that night he proudly wore his Guard uniform, complete with the characteristic ‘Jinnah cap’. Even my younger siblings, two-year-old Ibrahim and little baby Tunu, were ...
Muhammad Ali was one of the world’s most celebrated boxer. Throughout his life, he was recognized as an activist for Black Americans’ civil rights. He also expressed his strong opposition to the U.S. government’s mediation in Vietnam. Ali was also a philanthropist and a great inspiration...
poet and activist Nikki Giovanni; civil rights activist Jesse Jackson; boxing promoter Don King; writer Gay Talese; New Yorker editor and author David Remnick; Todd Boyd, Gerald Early, novelist Walter Mosley; Islam scholar Sherman Jackson; poet Wole Soyinka; and Ali’s grown children, family me...