Fighter’s Heaven in West Brunswick Township recently welcomed the author of “Ali: A Life” to tour the former training camp of professional boxer and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Author Jonathan ...
Arguably no one knew Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) better than his brother, as Rahaman Ali proves in this astute account of the world boxing champion’s life. From their childhood in Jim Crow–era Louisville ...
Chicago author Jonathan Eig has written about the invention of the birth control pill (“The Birth of the Pill”), Jackie Robinson’s first season with the Dodgers (“Opening Day”), the plot that finally ...
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) was an American professional boxer, activist, entertainer and philanthropist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely regarded as one of the most ...
He was fast of fist and foot -- lip, too -- a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly, he thrilled, even after the punches had taken their toll and ...
He was fast of fist and foot – lip, too – a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly he thrilled, even after the punches had taken their toll and his ...
The movie 'One Night in Miami,' directed by Regina King, imagines the conversations between four Black icons in 1964: Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Malcolm X, on the night of Clay's surprise ...
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier's trilogy encounter in Manila in 1975 is the consensus greatest heavyweight title fight of all ...
LOUISVILLE – Rahaman Ali had a ringside seat for nearly all of his brother’s life. He remembers the brashest of boxers being “absolutely petrified” to ask girls out and, much later, entirely at ease ...
The Muhammad Ali Center announced Rahaman's death on Saturday, Aug. 2 Rahaman Ali, Muhammad Ali's younger brother, died on Friday, Aug. 1, at the age of 82 Rahaman, who was a professional boxer in his ...
To Ken Burns, boxer Muhammad Ali has always been a hero. “I’d be happy to sit on a barstool and argue with somebody that he’s the greatest athlete of all time,” the filmmaker recently told Salon. Now ...
Rahaman Ali, the younger brother of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, has died, his family confirmed. Ali passed away on Friday, Aug. 1, just two weeks after his 82nd birthday, according to the Muhammad ...