Nino Benvenuti, an Italian former boxer who won gold at his home Olympics in 1960 before earning world championship titles in two weight classes as a pro, has died at age 87. The Italian National ...

Ali, who was born Cassius Clay in 1942 and became Muhammad Ali after joining the ... who was a friend of both Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., says in the episode. "He wasn't — Muhammad Ali wasn't ...

including Baptist pastor and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., boxing icon Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali, and Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara. The real Ellsworth Raymond ...

Four Black men on the verge of changing the world—Sam Cooke, Jim Brown, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali (still known as Cassius Clay)—meet in ... Leslie Odom Jr. is particularly effective as ...

When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Sunday night that Chubby Checker would be inducted into its ranks later this ...

Cassius M. Clay, late U. S. Minister to Russia ... in the manner deScribed was first patented in 1850, by Ga,il :Borden, Jr., then a resident of Galveston, Tex'as, since better known in connexion ...

Jonathan Barfield Jr., former New Hanover County commissioner Jordan is ... of the plaque in front of the pink house in Louisville where Cassius Clay grew up. These are points of pride for the city, ...

My regular readers will know that I seize travel opportunities whenever I can and have a desire to visit all 50 states. I ...

He was awarded the Val Barker trophy as the outstanding boxer at the 1960 Games -- an event where American Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, won the light heavyweight gold. Giovanni 'Nino ...

American Heavyweight boxer, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali, 1942 – 2016), making a fist as he lies on his hotel bed, London, 27th May 1963. Clay is in London for a match against Henry Cooper ...