Muhammad Ali

“I cannot go out a loser, Jack Johnson went out a loser. Sugar Ray went out a loser. Joe Louis went out a loser… I got to be that black man who gets out on top.”

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The night Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Malcolm X, and Sam Cooke did not have a party

“Around 10 o’clock Muhammad Ali entered the ring. The audience in the the theatre rose to its feet and cheered. Actually, they said, 'Ali bomaye.' ['Ali, kill him.'] The tribal spirit is very contagious”

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A Muhammad Ali birthday present to Voice readers: Ishmael Reed’s 1978 opus on the Ali-Spinks rematch

For Muhammad Ali’s birthday, we look back on Jamaica Kincaid’s coverage of the Ali-Foreman fight

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