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 ...

In the year preceding Muhammad Ali’s stunning knockout of Sonny Liston that made him the heavyweight champion of the world, civil-rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, the Rev. Dr.

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 ...

Decades before NFL player Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police treatment of African-Americans, boxer Muhammad Ali roiled white America with his 1967 resistance to ...

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 ...

HE OFTEN claimed to be the greatest of all time, and he was right. Only a handful of athletes reach the pinnacle of their discipline. A couple of those have done so with a swagger that made them their ...

EXCLUSIVE: As we mark the 52nd anniversary of the first Ali-Frazier fight today, Deadline can reveal that Peacock is developing Excellence: 8 Fights, a scripted eight-part event series about boxing ...

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 ...

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 ...