A Q&A with Ken Burns, Lonnae O’Neal (moderator), Janet Evans, and Todd Boyd. In this virtual event series, filmmakers and special guests explore Muhammad Ali on the World Stage. The hour-long ...
The following is the script from the March 1996 story, "The Greatest." Ed Bradley was the correspondent. John Hamlin, producer. He called himself "The Greatest" and few argued. For a while he was ...
"He had to have 'the package' as they say," Lonnie Ali says of the actor playing late husband Muhammad Ali in the Prime Video ...
After defeating Sonny Liston in 1964, an ecstatic Muhammad Ali declared: "I shook up the world." Thrusting his arms into the air, he treated the victory as if it had been a knockout. Never mind that ...
Ali started talking to Frazier when the referee gave them instructions. Frazier talked right back at him. Ali prayed in his corner before the opening bell. Frazier moved right in and missed with a ...
HOUSTON, TX -- On the night I saw Muhammad Ali fight, grown black men who paid under 10 bucks a head to glimpse their hero shouted from the rafters of the cavernous Astrodome in Houston. Subscribe to ...
Muhammad Ali, the colorful but polarizing three-time world heavyweight champion who risked his career and his freedom by his refusal to be inducted into the Army during the Vietnam War, died Friday ...
Muhammad Ali redefined heavyweight boxing—he broke every rule about how big men should fight. Across 21 years as a professional, Ali won 56 fights (37 by knockout) and lost only 5. Ali turned fights ...
Ali wanted a shot at Liston, but Liston didn’t want to fight the brash 22-year-old. So Ali hatched a plan to get Liston to agree to a fight. Before Muhammad Ali’s rise to prominence, Sonny Liston was ...
Muhammad Ali was just barely into his 40s and still pretty freshly retired for good. He was having dinner one evening with a writer who couldn’t help but notice the way the chicken leg trembled in his ...
Muhammad Ali, the three-time heavyweight champion boxer whose electrifying prowess in the ring and controversial outspokenness outside of it made him one of the world’s most recognizable personalities ...