Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have been called a "coward" and a "rabbit" and an "Uncle Tom" by Cassius Clay, and many people think that I share their contempt ...

This article originally appeared in the October 1963 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. One thing that stuck in my mind, for some reason, was the way ...

Born into a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, Cassius Marcellus Clay became a leading abolitionist, political fighter, ...

Larry Boeck was a longtime sports journalist for the Louisville Courier-Journal who covered Muhammad Ali for years. He died in 1972. Here is an excerpt from a profile Boeck wrote in 1966. Some people ...

Young Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, knocked out opponent Sonny Liston for his first world title in boxing on this day in history, Feb. 25, 1964. Twenty-two-year-old Clay achieved the ...

*After winning the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship defeating Sonny Liston in 1964, Cassius Clay – influenced by the Nation of Islam teachings – changed his name to Muhammad Ali (meaning “beloved ...

La'Tevin Alexander as a young Cassius Clay in "And in This Corner: Cassius Clay," onstage at Oregon Children's Theatre through March 25. (Owen Carey) By Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive Before ...

From left, Leon Thomas III (Sam Cooke), Kieron J. Anthony (Cassius Clay), Jason Delane (Malcolm X) and Esau Pritchett (Jim Brown) star in Miami New Drama’s season opener, “One Night In Miami …” Miami ...

If you were standing 15 years ago in front of Louisville’s Broadway Cinemas, in which Will Smith was playing “Ali,” and looked either way down the wide avenue, a story of a different part of Muhammad ...