Friday last week marked the death of arguably the greatest and most beloved Black athlete in history: Muhammad Ali. No sport has exploited athletes, particularly Black athletes, quite like boxing ...

Instead of acknowledging Ali as a conscientious objector, the government prosecuted him, and an all-white jury took 21 minutes to convict him.

WASHINGTON – For Muhammad Ali, the idea of being a humble athlete — someone pre-packaged and palatable for white America — was never an option. Instead, he demanded respect not only as a ...

I was a member of the Black Panthers, and that was enough for me." Yet almost in the next moment Mumia said, "But if ever there was a sports hero to us, it was Muhammad Ali." ...

"So Muhammad Ali becomes this person who is unapologetically, you know, at times unforgivably black," Joseph says. "But in a way that young people, especially African-Americans and the culture ...

Muhammad Ali, who passed away Friday, was beloved by millions for his sharp wit and his outspoken self-love as a radical black Muslim — but that hadn't always been the case. In 1974, one month ...

Whether it was his repeated defiance of White supremacy or his pan-Africanism, Muhammad Ali had an unforgettable effect on how a young boy growing up in the Bronx viewed Black manhood.

Transcending is a perpetual one-way street for black people, yet famous white people like Antonin Scalia, David Bowie and Merle Haggard weren’t asked to transcend their whiteness for black ...

To young black males who came of age during the post-Civil Rights Era, Muhammad Ali was more than a boxer, he was our hero.

“I can’t tell you how many people … have come up to me and said, ‘Before Muhammad Ali, I thought it was better to be white than black. I was ashamed of my color, and Ali made me proud.

But when Ali's patron, Elijah Muhammad, died in 1975, his son Warith quickly converted the organization to an orthodox Sunni sect. Ali exposed many black Americans to the religion — and Sunni ...

Muhammad Ali is remembered as a great athlete and humanitarian — and also as an incisive, defiant black leader. He died Friday at age 74. Listen A Defiant Muhammad Ali Was Cherished By Black Men ...